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προβώμιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: probōmios

Principal Part: προβώμιος προβώμιον

Structure: προβωμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: βωμός

Sense

  1. before the altar, a space in front of an altar

Examples

  • ἐς γὰρ τοσοῦτον ἀμαθίας ἔλθοιμεν ἄν, εἰ τοὺς θεοὺς ἄκοντας ἐκπονήσομεν φράζειν ἃ μὴ θέλουσιν, ἢ προβωμίοις σφαγαῖσι μήλων ἢ δι οἰωνῶν πτεροῖς. (Euripides, Ion, episode 3:23)

Synonyms

  1. before the altar

Similar forms

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

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