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περισκελής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περισκελής περισκελές

Structure: περισκελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ske/llw

Sense

  1. dry and hard all round, exceeding hard, obstinate, stubborn

Examples

  • κοὐκ ἔστ’ ἀέλπτον οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ἁλίσκεται χὠ δεινὸσ ὁρ́κοσ χαἰ περισκελεῖσ φρένεσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode2)
  • περισκελεῖσ γάρ εἰσιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 68:5)

Synonyms

  1. dry and hard all round

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

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