Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύστυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύστυλος πολύστυλον

Structure: πολυστυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with many columns

Examples

  • ἐξ οὗ πάλιν ὁμοίωσ τῇ αὐξήσει κατακαμφθέντασ ἄλλην κατώρυγα ποιεῖν, εἶτ’ ἄλλην, καὶ οὕτωσ ἐφεξῆσ, ὥστ’ ἀφ’ ἑνὸσ δένδρου σκιάδιον γίνεσθαι μακρὸν πολυστύλῳ σκηνῇ ὅμοιον. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 42:4)

Synonyms

  1. with many columns

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

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