Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολυπρόσωπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυπρόσωπος πολυπρόσωπον

Structure: πολυπροσωπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pro/swpon

Sense

  1. many-faced, with many masks or characters

Examples

  • καὶ τούτων πολυπροσώπωσ καὶ πιστῶσ ἀλλήλοισ συναγωνιζομένων ἔτι καὶ μᾶλλον αἱ παρὰ τῶν μειρακίων ἀφορμαὶ προσεγίνοντο· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 96:2)

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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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