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ὀλοφώιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλοφώιος ὀλοφώιον

Structure: ὀλοφωι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From OL, the Root of o)/llumi: the term. -fw/ios has not been explained.

Sense

  1. destructive, deadly, pernicious, in pernicious

Examples

  • "Δαιμόνιε, φρονέεισ ὀλοφώια καὶ πάροσ αὐτῷ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 9:16)
  • ὀξὺ δὲ πανδαμάτωρ λοξῷ ἴδεν οἱο͂ν ἔρεξαν ὄμματι νηλειὴσ ὀλοφώιον ἔργον Ἐρινύσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 8:36)
  • οὐ μὲν γάρ κε τοσόνδε κατ’ Ἀπίδα κνώδαλον εὑρ́οισ ἱμείρων ἰδέειν, ἐπεὶ οὐ μάλα τηλίκα βόσκει, ἀλλ’ ἄρκτουσ τε σύασ τε λύκων τ’ ὀλοφώιον ἔρνοσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 78)
  • "ἀλλ’ αὑτὸν βάσκαινεν ἰδὼν ὀλοφώιοσ ἀνὴρ δίνῃ ἐν ποταμῷ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 9:8)
  • πάντα δέ τοι ἐρέω ὀλοφώια τοῖο γέροντοσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 44:7)

Synonyms

  1. destructive

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

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