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πεντάδραχμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεντάδραχμος πεντάδραχμον

Structure: πενταδραχμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: draxmh/

Sense

  1. of the weight or value of five drachmae

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ Κορίνθιοι, ἦσαν γάρ σφι τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον φίλοι ἐσ τὰ μάλιστα, Ἀθηναίοισι διδοῦσι δεομένοισι εἴκοσι νέασ, διδοῦσι δὲ πενταδράχμουσ ἀποδόμενοι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 89 2:4)

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

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