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παλίμποινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλίμποινος παλίμποινον

Structure: παλιμποιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poinh

Sense

  1. retributive, retribution, repayment

Examples

  • ἓ ἕ, πρὸ δὲ δὴ ’χθρῶν τὸν ἔσωθεν μελάθρων, Ζεῦ, θέσ, ἐπεί νιν μέγαν ἄρασ, δίδυμα καὶ τριπλᾶ παλίμποινα θέλων ἀμείψει. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, ephymn 11)

Synonyms

  1. retributive

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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