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ὀπίσθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπίσθιος ὀπίσθιᾱ ὀπίσθιον

Structure: ὀπισθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)/pisqen

Sense

  1. hinder, belonging to the hinder part, the hind-

Examples

  • αὐτοῦ δὲ Λέντλου καὶ Κεθήγου θεράποντέσ τε καὶ ἐξελεύθεροι, χειροτέχνασ πολλοὺσ προσλαβόντεσ, κατ’ ὀπισθίασ ὁδοὺσ περιῄεσαν ἐπὶ τὰσ τῶν στρατηγῶν οἰκίασ ὡσ τοὺσ δεσπότασ ἐξαρπασόμενοι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 1 5:3)

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

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