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ὀκτάρρυμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀκτάρρυμος ὀκτάρρυμον

Structure: ὀκταρρυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with eight poles, drawn by eight pairs of oxen abreast

Examples

  • Κῦροσ δὲ ἰδὼν τὸ τετράρρυμον αὐτοῦ ἁρ́μα κατενόησεν ὅτι οἱο͂́ν τε εἰή καὶ ὀκτάρρυμον ποιήσασθαι, ὥστε ὀκτὼ ζεύγεσι βοῶν ἄγειν τῶν μηχανῶν τὸ κατώτατον οἴκημα· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 64:2)

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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