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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

  • καὶ τὰ τούτων γένη, οἱο͂ν ἀνδριάντοσ ἄλλωσ Πολύκλειτοσ καὶ ἄλλωσ ἀνδριαντοποιόσ, ὅτι συμβέβηκε τῷ ἀνδριαντοποιῷ Πολυκλείτῳ εἶναι· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 26:1)
  • "τελεῖν τοῦτο τὸ ἀργύριον ὡσ τίνι ὄντι ἐν νῷ ἔχεισ Πολυκλείτῳ τε καὶ Φειδίᾳ; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 17:6)
  • ἁρμονίασ δὲ ἢ κάλλουσ ἕνεκα ἀρχιτέκτων ποῖοσ ἐσ ἅμιλλαν Πολυκλείτῳ γένοιτ’ ἂν ἀξιόχρεωσ; (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 7:3)
  • Βύκελοσ δέ, ὃσ Σικυωνίων πρῶτοσ πὺξ ἐκράτησεν ἐν παισίν, ἔστιν ἔργον Σικυωνίου Κανάχου παρὰ τῷ Ἀργείῳ Πολυκλείτῳ διδαχθέντοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 12:1)

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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