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ὀλιγόγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγόγονος ὀλιγόγονον

Structure: ὀλιγογον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. producing few at a birth

Examples

  • καί κωσ τοῦ θείου ἡ προνοίη, ὥσπερ καὶ οἰκόσ ἐστι, ἐοῦσα σοφή, ὅσα μὲν ψυχήν τε δειλὰ καὶ ἐδώδιμα, ταῦτα μὲν πάντα πολύγονα πεποίηκε, ἵνα μὴ ἐπιλίπῃ κατεσθιόμενα, ὅσα δὲ σχέτλια καὶ ἀνιηρά, ὀλιγόγονα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 108 3:1)

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

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