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πολύκλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύκλητος πολύκλητον

Structure: πολυκλητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. called from many a land

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ πάντων ἠε͂ν ὁμὸσ θρόοσ οὐδ’ ἰά γῆρυσ, ἀλλὰ γλῶσσα μέμικτο, πολύκλητοι δ’ ἔσαν ἄνδρεσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 44:8)
  • ἀτὰρ αὖτε πολύκλητοι ἐπίκουροι εὕδουσι· (Homer, Iliad, Book 10 47:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ πάντων ἦν κατὰ τὸν ποιητὴν ὁ αὐτὸσ θροῦσ οὐδ’ ἰά γῆρυσ, ἄλλη δ’ ἄλλων γλῶσσα, πολύκλητοι δ’ ἔσαν ἄνδρεσ, καθάπερ ἀρτίωσ ἐξηριθμησάμην. (Polybius, Histories, book 15, chapter 12 9:1)

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

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