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ὀκτάτονος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: oktatonos

Principal Part: ὀκτάτονος ὀκτάτονον

Structure: ὀκτατον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. eight-stretched, the eight arms

Examples

  • αἰγιαλοῦ τενάγεσσιν ὑποπλώοντα λαθραίῃ εἰρεσίῃ Φαίδων εἴσιδε πουλυπόδην μάρψας δ ὠκὺς ἔριψεν ἐπὶ χθόνα, πρὶν περὶ χεῖρας πλέξασθαι βρύγδην ὀκτατόνους ἕλικας: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 141)

Synonyms

  1. eight-stretched

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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