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περιπόνηρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιπόνηρος περιπόνηρον

Structure: περιπονηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. very rascally

Examples

  • οὐδ’ ἐντυχὼν ἐν τἀγορᾷ πρόσεισί σοι βαδίζων Κρατῖνοσ ἀεὶ κεκαρμένοσ μοιχὸν μιᾷ μαχαίρᾳ, ὁ περιπόνηροσ Ἀρτέμων, ὁ ταχὺσ ἄγαν τὴν μουσικήν, ὄζων κακὸν τῶν μασχαλῶν πατρὸσ Τραγασαίου· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Choral, strophe 31)

Similar forms

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

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