Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύσεμνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύσεμνος πολύσεμνον

Structure: πολυσεμν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. exceeding venerable

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ καὶ πρὸ τῆσ στρατείασ μὲν ἦν πολύσεμνοσ διὰ τὸ μέγεθοσ τῶν ὅπλων· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 3 2:1)

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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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