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νυκτιπόλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτιπόλος νυκτιπόλον

Structure: νυκτιπολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pole/w

Sense

  1. roaming by night

Examples

  • ἴστω δ’ ἱερὸν φάοσ Ηἐλίοιο, ἴστω νυκτιπόλου Περσηίδοσ ὄργια κούρησ, μὴ μὲν ἐγὼν ἐθέλουσα σὺν ἀνδράσιν ἀλλοδαποῖσιν κεῖθεν ἀφωρμήθην· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 16:20)

Synonyms

  1. roaming by night

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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