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πολύκλειτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύκλειτος πολύκλειτη πολύκλειτον

Structure: πολυκλειτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. far-famed

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "μὴ μυσαχθῇσ δὲ τοῦ σχήματοσ τὸ εὐτελὲσ μηδὲ τῆσ ἐσθῆτοσ τὸ πιναρὸν ἀπὸ γὰρ τοιούτων ὁρμώμενοσ καὶ Φειδίασ ἐκεῖνοσ ἔδειξε τὸν Δία καὶ Πολύκλειτοσ τὴν Ἥραν εἰργάσατο καὶ Μύρων ἐπῃνέθη καὶ Πραξιτέλησ ἐθαυμάσθη. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 7:7)
  • "εἰ δὲ καὶ Φειδίασ ἢ Πολύκλειτοσ γένοιο καὶ πολλὰ θαυμαστὰ ἐξεργάσαιο. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 7:17)
  • Τίμαιοσ δ’ ἐπὶ τῇ πυρᾷ τῇ κατασκευασθείσῃ Διονυσίῳ τῷ Σικελίασ τυράννῳ, καὶ Ιἑρώνυμοσ ἐπὶ τῇ κατασκευῇ τῆσ ἁρμαμάξησ ᾗ συνέβαινε κατακομισθῆναι τὸ Ἀλεξάνδρου σῶμα, Πολύκλειτοσ δ’ ἐπὶ τῷ λυχνίῳ τῷ κατασκευασθέντι τῷ Πέρσῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 40 1:1)
  • Πολύκλειτοσ δ’ ὁ Λαρισαῖοσ ἐν τῇ ὀγδόῃ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν καὶ ἐπὶ χρυσῆσ κλίνησ κοιμᾶσθαί φησι τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ αὐλητρίδασ αὐτῷ καὶ αὐλητὰσ αἰεὶ ἕπεσθαι ἐπὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον καὶ πίνειν ἄχρι τῆσ ἑώ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 551)
  • ἀπέκτεινε γὰρ τοὺσ πονηρούσ, ἐν οἷσ ἦν ὁ Ἥλιοσ καὶ Πολύκλειτοσ καὶ Πετῖνοσ καὶ Πατρόβιοσ. (Plutarch, Galba, chapter 17 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. far-famed

Related

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

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