Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύχρυσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύχρυσος πολύχρυσον

Structure: πολυχρυς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. rich in gold

Examples

  • γέλασε δ’, ὅτι τέκοσ ἄφαρ ἔβα πολύχρυσα θέλων λατρεύματα σχεῖν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 15)
  • Ὁ δὲ τοῖσ σώμασι τῶν Κίμβρων ἀψαυστεῖν ἐκέλευεν, ἑώσ ἡμέρα γένγται, πολύχρυσα εἶναι δοκῶν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:75)

Synonyms

  1. rich in gold

Related

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

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