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πολύχειρ?

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration: polycheir

Principal Part: πολύχειρ πολύχειρος

Sense

  1. with many hands, many handed
  2. with many men

Examples

  • κυάνεον δ ὄμμασι λεύσσων φονίου δέργμα δράκοντος, πολύχειρ καὶ πολυναύτας, Σύριόν θ ἁρ´μα διώκων, ἐπάγει δουρικλύτοις ἀν- δράσι τοξόδαμνον Ἄρη. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, strophe 21)
  • ἥξει καὶ πολύπους καὶ πολύχειρ ἁ δεινοῖς κρυπτομένα λόχοις χαλκόπους Ἐρινύς. (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. with many hands

  2. with many men

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

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