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ὀκτάτονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

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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