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ὀξυδερκής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξυδερκής ὀξυδερκές

Structure: ὀξυδερκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: de/rkomai

Sense

  1. quick-sighted

Examples

  • τοῦ Δειραδιώτου δὲ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἔχεται μὲν ἱερὸν Ἀθηνᾶσ Ὀξυδερκοῦσ καλουμένησ, Διομήδουσ ἀνάθημα, ὅτι οἱ μαχομένῳ ποτὲ ἐν Ἰλίῳ τὴν ἀχλὺν ἀφεῖλεν ἡ θεὸσ ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. quick-sighted

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

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