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πολύμουσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύμουσος πολύμουσον

Structure: πολυμους (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mou=sa

Sense

  1. rich in the Muses' gifts

Examples

  • κατ’ ὀλίγον δὲ αὐξανομένη καὶ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸ βέλτιον ἀεὶ προσθήκησ τυγχάνουσα, νῦν ἐοίκεν ἐσ τὸ ἀκρότατον ἀποτετελέσθαι καὶ γεγενῆσθαι ποικίλον τι καὶ παναρμόνιον καὶ πολύμουσον ἀγαθόν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 7:5)
  • "οἶμαι δέ σε πεφροντικέναι φιλόμουσον οὕτω καὶ πολύμουσον ὄντα. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. rich in the Muses' gifts

Similar forms

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

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