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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἄξιον ὁμοιῶσαι τῷ νοτίῳ τείχει τῆσ ἀκροπόλεωσ, ὃ τοῖσ ὑπὸ Κίμωνοσ κομισθεῖσιν ἐτελέσθη χρήμασι, τοὺσ ἐν Νέᾳ πόλει θαλάμουσ καὶ τὰσ περικλύστουσ ἀπόψεισ, ἃσ Λούκουλλοσ ἀπὸ τῶν βαρβαρικῶν ἐξῳκοδόμει λαφύρων οὐδέ γε τῇ Κίμωνοσ τραπέζῃ τὴν Λουκούλλου παραβαλεῖν, τῇ δημοκρατικῇ καὶ φιλανθρώπῳ τὴν πολυτελῆ καὶ σατραπικήν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon, chapter 1 5:1)

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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