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παραβάκτρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραβάκτρος παραβάκτρον

Structure: παραβακτρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ba/ktron

Sense

  1. like a staff, as of a staff

Examples

  • δυστυχὲσ ἀγγελίασ ἔποσ οἴσῃ, πάτερ, οὐκέτι σοι τέκνα λεύσσει φάοσ οὐδ’ ἄλοχοσ, παραβάκτροισ ἃ πόδα σὸν τυφλόπουν θεραπεύμασιν αἰὲν ἐμόχθει, <ὦ> πάτερ, ὤμοι. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 2:4)

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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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