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παράλπιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παράλπιος παράλπιον

Structure: παραλπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. dwelling near the Alps

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Αἰμίλιοσ ὕπατοσ ἀποδειχθεὶσ ἐστράτευσεν ἐπὶ τοὺσ παραλπίουσ Λίγυασ, οὓσ ἔνιοι καί Λιγυστίνουσ ὀνομάζουσι, μάχιμον καί θυμοειδὲσ ἔθνοσ, ἐμπείρωσ δὲ πολεμεῖν διδασκόμενον ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων διὰ τὴν γειτνίασιν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 6 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling near the Alps

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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