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ὀξύχειρ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξύχειρ ὀξύχειρος

Sense

  1. quick with the hands, quick to strike
  2. quick, of the hands

Examples

  • Οὕτωσ ὀξύχειρ ἐστὶ καθάπερ ἐν τῇ γαστρὶ ἐκ μελετήσασ τὴν κλεπτικήν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:9)
  • τἀλλότρια γίνετ’ ὀξύχειρ κοὐκ ἐγκρατήσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 37 5:1)
  • εἶτα ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀνθρώπου παρωξυμμένοσ ὀξύχειρ λίαν καὶ πάροινόσ ἐστιν, ἀνάγκη δὲ ἀμύνασθαι. (Lysias, Speeches, 12:2)

Synonyms

  1. quick

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

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