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πολιοκρόταφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολιοκρόταφος πολιοκρόταφον

Structure: πολιοκροταφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with gray hair on the temples, just beginning to be gray

Examples

  • τὰν μὲν ἀεὶ πολύμυθον, ἀεὶ λάλον, ὦ ξένε, κίσσα φάσει, τὰν δὲ μέθασ σύντροφον ἅδε κύλιξ, τὰν Κρῆσσαν δὲ τὰ τόξα, τὰ δ’ εἴρια τὰν φιλοεργόν, ἄνδεμα δ’ αὖ μίτρασ τὰν πολιοκρόταφον· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4231)

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

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