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παλίνδρομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλίνδρομος παλίνδρομον

Structure: παλινδρομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dramei=n

Sense

  1. running back again

Examples

  • ὥστε παλίνδρομοσ ἄπιθι, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, τὸν Πλοῦτον ἐπανάγων τῷ Διί· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 37:1)
  • καί ποτε πέμψασ αὐτῷ μνᾶσ εἴκοσι παλινδρόμουσ ἀπέλαβεν, εἰπόντοσ Σωκράτουσ τὸ δαιμόνιον αὐτῷ μὴ ἐπιτρέπειν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. h'. ARISTIPPOS 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. running back again

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

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