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ὀφθαλμωρύχος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: ophthalmōrychos

Principal Part: ὀφθαλμωρύχος ὀφθαλμωρύχον

Structure: ὀφθαλμωρυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. tearing out the eyes

Examples

  • ἀλλ οὗ καρανιστῆρες ὀφθαλμωρύχοι δίκαι σφαγαί τε σπέρματός τ ἀποφθορᾷ παίδων κακοῦται χλοῦνις, ἠδ ἀκρωνία, λευσμός τε, καὶ μύζουσιν οἰκτισμὸν πολὺν ὑπὸ ῥάχιν παγέντες. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode3)

Synonyms

  1. tearing out the eyes

Similar forms

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

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