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πολύβοτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: polybotos

Principal Part: πολύβοτος πολύβοτον

Structure: πολυβοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: βόσκω

Sense

  1. much-nourishing

Examples

  • βλαχαὶ δ οἰών πολυβότων ἀν ὀρέων νομὸν ἐβαν ταννσφνρων ἐς ἀν ἄντρα Νυμφῶν: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 27 3:1)
  • πολυτελὴς δὲ καὶ ἁβροδίαιτος ἱκανῶς τοῖς Καμπανίαν οἰκοῦσι καὶ νῦν ἐστι καὶ τότε ἦν ὁ βίος καὶ πάντα τὸν λοιπὸν ἔσται χρόνον, πολύκαρπόν τε πεδιάδα καὶ πολύβοτον καὶ πρὸς ὑγίειαν ἀνθρώποις γεωργοῦσιν ἀρίστην οὖσαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 15, chapter 3 4:2)
  • οὐδ ἄν τις αὐτὴν φαίη πολύκαρπον μὲν εἶναι καὶ πολύδενδρον καὶ πολύβοτον, ἐνδιαίτημα δ ἀνθρώποις ὑπάρχειν ἄχαρι: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 37 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. much-nourishing

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

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