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πόμπιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόμπιμος πόμπιμον

Structure: πομπιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pomph/

Sense

  1. conducting, escorting, guiding, that lends escort, home-sending
  2. sent, conveyed

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ πνοὰσ πρὸσ οἶκον ἤδη τάσδε πομπίμουσ ὁρῶ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 8:40)
  • ὅ τοι κατόπτησ, ὡσ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, στρατοῦ πευθώ τιν’ ἡμῖν, ὦ φίλαι, νέαν φέρει, σπουδῇ διώκων πομπίμουσ χνόασ ποδῶν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode1)

Synonyms

  1. sent

Related

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

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