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περίκλυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίκλυστος περίκλυστη περίκλυστον

Structure: περικλυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. washed all round by the sea

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἔστι νῦν μνημεῖον ἐμφανὲσ τοῦ ποτε ἔργου νῆσοσ εὐμεγέθησ Ἀσκληπιοῦ ἱερά, περίκλυστοσ ἐκ τοῦ ποταμοῦ, ἥν φασιν ἐκ τοῦ σωροῦ τῆσ καλάμησ σαπείσησ καὶ ἔτι καὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ προσλιπαίνοντοσ αὐτῇ ἰλὺν γενέσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 13 6:1)
  • οὕτωσ ἐστὶν ἡ Ἰβηρία περίκλυστοσ, ὅτι μὴ τῇ Πυρήνῃ μόνῃ, μεγίστῳ τῶν Εὐρωπαίων ὀρῶν καὶ ἰθυτάτῳ σχεδὸν ἁπάντων· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 1:2)
  • ὅτι γὰρ μὴ τῷδε τῷ αὐχένι μόνῳ, τὰ λοιπὰ ἡ Καρχηδὼν περίκλυστοσ ἦν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 18 4:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ ἐντὸσ τῆσ γραμμῆσ ταύτησ χώρα μέχρι Καρίασ καὶ Ιὠνίασ καὶ τῶν ἐντὸσ Ἅλυοσ νεμομένων ἐθνῶν περίκλυστοσ ἅπασά ἐστιν ὑπὸ τοῦ Αἰγαίου καὶ τῶν ἑκατέρωθεν λεχθέντων τῆσ θαλάττησ μερῶν· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 48:7)
  • ἔστι δὲ πέτρα περίκλυστοσ ὅσον ἑπτὰ τὸν κύκλον σταδίων, πλήρησ κατοικίασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 26:2)

Synonyms

  1. washed all round by the sea

Related

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

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