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πολυθρύλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυθρύλητος πολυθρύλητον

Structure: πολυθρυλητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qrule/w

Sense

  1. much-spoken-of, well known, notorious

Examples

  • καὶ Ἀρχέστρατοσ ἐν τῷ πολυθρυλήτῳ ποιήματι καὶ σιτευτὸν χηνὸσ ὁμοῦ σκεύαζε νεοττόν, ὀπτὸν ἁπλῶσ καὶ τόνδε, σὺ δὲ ἡμῖν, ὦ Οὐλπιανέ, δίκαιοσ εἶ λέγειν, ὁ περὶ πάντων πάντασ ἀπαιτῶν, ποῦ μνήμησ ἠξίωται παρὰ τοῖσ ἀρχαίοισ τὰ πολυτελῆ ταῦτα τῶν χηνῶν ἥπατα, ὅτι γὰρ χηνοβοσκοὺσ οἴδασι μάρτυσ Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Διονυσαλεξάνδρῳ λέγων ’ χηνοβοσκοί, βουκόλοι Ὅμηροσ δὲ καὶ θηλυκῶσ καὶ ἀρσενικῶσ εἴρηκεν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 327)
  • Ἀρχέστρατον λέγει τὸν τένθην ὁ Λυγκεύσ, ὃσ ἐν τῷ πολυθρυλήτῳ ποιήματι περὶ τοῦ γαλεοῦ λέγει οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 24 1:1)

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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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