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πολύχαλκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύχαλκος πολύχαλκον

Structure: πολυχαλκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. abounding in copper or brass
  2. wrought of brass, all-brasen

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ πολύχρυσοσ εἶ καὶ πολύχαλκοσ· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 31:5)
  • ἦν δέ τισ ἐν Τρώεσσι Δόλων Εὐμήδεοσ υἱὸσ κήρυκοσ θείοιο πολύχρυσοσ πολύχαλκοσ, ὃσ δή τοι εἶδοσ μὲν ἐήν κακόσ, ἀλλὰ ποδώκησ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 10 36:2)
  • οὗτοσ μὲν δὴ ἐοίκεν εὐχόμενοσ τῷ θεῷ, Πολυκλῆσ <δὲ> ἐπίκλησιν λαβὼν Πολύχαλκοσ τεθρίππῳ μὲν καὶ οὗτοσ ἐκράτησεν, ἡ δὲ εἰκὼν ἐπὶ τῇ χειρὶ ἔχει οἱ τῇ δεξιᾷ ταινίαν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 11:3)

Synonyms

  1. abounding in copper or brass

  2. wrought of brass

Related

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

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