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πολύπους

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύπους

Structure: πολυποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: the form polu/pous is late

Sense

  1. the sea-polypus or octopus

Declension

Third 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

  • "οὐ γάρ τι φαῦλον ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ μικρὸν οὐδ’ ἀγεννέσ ἐστιν οὐδ’ ὥσπερ οἱ πολύποδεσ ἄχρι τῶν ἐδωδίμων ἐκτείνει τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ, ἀλλὰ ταύτην μὲν ὀξύτατοσ ἀποκόπτει κόροσ ἀκαρὲσ ὡρ́ασ μόριον ἀκμάσασαν, τῶν δὲ πρὸσ τὸ καλὸν ὁρμῶν καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ τῷ καλῷ τιμὴν καὶ χάριν οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτῶν μέτρον ὁ τοῦ βίου χρόνοσ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ παντὸσ αἰῶνοσ ἐπιδραττόμενον τὸ φιλότιμον καὶ φιλάνθρωπον ἐξαμιλλᾶται ταῖσ πράξεσι καὶ ταῖσ χάρισιν ἡδονὰσ ἀμηχάνουσ ἐχούσαισ, ἃσ οὐδὲ φεύγοντεσ οἱ χρηστοὶ διαφεύγειν δύνανται, πανταχόθεν αὐτοῖσ ἀπαντώσασ καὶ περιεχομένασ, ὅταν εὐφραίνωσι πολλοὺσ εὐεργετοῦντεσ· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 173)

Synonyms

  1. the sea-polypus or octopus

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

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