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περίρρυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίρρυτος περίρρυτον

Structure: περιρρυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: like peri/rroos

Sense

  1. surrounded with water, sea-girt
  2. flowing round, that flow round

Examples

  • ἀκτὴ μὲν ἥδε τῆσ περιρρύτου χθονὸσ Λήμνου, βροτοῖσ ἄστιπτοσ οὐδ’ οἰκουμένη, ἔνθ’, ὦ κρατίστου πατρὸσ Ἑλλήνων τραφεὶσ Ἀχιλλέωσ παῖ Νεοπτόλεμε, τὸν Μηλιᾶ Ποίαντοσ υἱὸν ἐξέθηκ’ ἐγώ ποτε, ταχθεὶσ τόδ’ ἔρδειν τῶν ἀνασσόντων ὕπο, νόσῳ καταστάζοντα διαβόρῳ πόδα· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 1:1)
  • ἐγὼ γένοσ μέν εἰμι τῆσ περιρρύτου Σκύρου· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode16)

Synonyms

  1. surrounded with water

  2. flowing round

Related

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

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