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πάσσων?

; Transliteration: passōn

Principal Part: πάσσων πάσσονος

Etym.: irreg. epic comp. of παχύς, for παχύτερος or παχίων

Sense

  1. thicker, stouter

Examples

  • καὶ ἐπορεύθη Δαυὶδ καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ, καὶ Σεμεΐ ἐπορεύετο ἐκ πλευρᾶς τοῦ ὄρους ἐχόμενα αὐτοῦ πορευόμενος καὶ καταρώμενος καὶ λιθάζων ἐν λίθοις ἐκ πλαγίων αὐτοῦ καὶ τῷ χοΐ πάσσων. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 16:13)
  • τῷ δ ἐπὶ Παιήων ὀδυνήφατα φάρμακα πάσσων ἠκέσατ: (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 43:13)
  • τῷ δ ἐπὶ Παιήων ὀδυνήφατα φάρμακα πάσσων ἠκέσατ:? (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 93:2)

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

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