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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

  • τάχα δὲ καὶ ὑμεῖσ, ἄνδρεσ φίλοι, ἑκόντεσ παρελίπετε ὡσ ἱερόν τινα ἰχθὺν τὸν παρ’ Ἐφίππῳ τῷ κωμῳδιοποιῷ, ὅν φησι τῷ Γηρυόνῃ σκευάζεσθαι ἐν τῷ ὁμωνύμῳ δράματι διὰ τούτων λέγων τούτῳ δ’ ὁπόταν ναέται χώρασ ἰχθὺν τιν’ ἕλωσ1’ οὐχ ἡμέριον, τῆσ περικλύστου δ’ ἁλίασ Κρήτησ μείζω μεγέθει, λοπὰσ ἐστ’ αὐτῷ δυνατὴ τούτουσ χωρεῖν ἑκατόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 381)

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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