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πολύοχλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύοχλος πολύοχλον

Structure: πολυοχλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. much-peopled, populous
  2. very numerous

Examples

  • Ἀννίβασ δὲ ποιησάμενοσ ἑξῆσ ἐπὶ τέτταρασ ἡμέρασ τὴν πορείαν ἀπὸ τῆσ διαβάσεωσ ἧκε πρὸσ τὴν καλουμένην Νῆσον, χώραν πολύοχλον καὶ σιτοφόρον, ἔχουσαν δὲ τὴν προσηγορίαν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ συμπτώματοσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 49 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. much-peopled

  2. very numerous

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

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