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πολυκέφαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυκέφαλος πολυκέφαλον

Structure: πολυκεφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kefalh/

Sense

  1. many-headed

Examples

  • ἢ πάντων ἂν εἰήτε ἀφρονέστατοι, εἰ πρὸσ ἑνὸσ ἄρχεσθαι τυραννικοῦ ἀνδρὸσ οὐκ ἀνασχετὸν ἡγησάμενοι δήμῳ τυραννίδι πολυκεφάλῳ νῦν ὑμᾶσ αὐτοὺσ παραδώσετε, καὶ ταῦτ’ οὐ μετὰ χαρίτων αὐτῷ πείθοντι συγχωρήσετε ὑπό τ’ ἀνάγκησ κρατηθέντεσ καὶ ὡσ οὐκ ἐξὸν ἄλλο τι δρᾶν νῦν ἡμῖν παρὰ γνώμην εἴξαντεσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 61 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. many-headed

Related

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

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