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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

  • καὶ πέντε μοχλοὺσ τῷ στύλῳ τῷ ἑνὶ κλίτει τῆσ σκηνῆσ τῷ δευτέρῳ, καὶ πέντε μοχλοὺσ τῷ στύλῳ τῷ ὀπισθίῳ τῷ κλίτει τῆσ σκηνῆσ τῷ πρὸσ θάλασσαν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 26:27)
  • καὶ τίγρεισ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Πρασίοισ φησὶν ὁ Μεγασθένησ μεγίστουσ γίνεσθαι, σχεδὸν δέ τι καὶ διπλασίουσ λεόντων, δυνατοὺσ δὲ ὥστε τῶν ἡμέρων τινὰ ἀγόμενον ὑπὸ τεττάρων τῷ ὀπισθίῳ σκέλει δραξάμενον ἡμιόνου βιάσασθαι καὶ ἑλκύσαι πρὸσ ἑαυτόν. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 74:5)

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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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