Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύφημος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύφημος

Structure: πολυφημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fh/mh

Sense

  1. abounding in songs and legends
  2. many-voiced, wordy, the many-voiced, the agora (the "parliament")

Examples

  • ἦν δὲ Πολυφήμου τὸ ἄντρον, ὃσ ἦν Ποσειδῶνοσ καὶ Θοώσησ νύμφησ, ἀνὴρ ὑπερμεγέθησ ἄγριοσ ἀνδροφάγοσ, ἔχων ἕνα ὀφθαλμὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ μετώπου. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 7 4:3)
  • ἐπιβοωμένου δὲ Πολυφήμου τοὺσ πέριξ Κύκλωπασ, παραγενόμενοι ἐπηρώτων τίσ αὐτὸν ἀδικεῖ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 7 7:2)
  • Φασὶ δὲ τὴν μὲν χώραν ἐπώνυμον Ἰλλυριοῦ τοῦ Πολυφήμου γενέσθαι· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. many-voiced

Related

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

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