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προπρηνής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προπρηνής προπρηνές

Structure: προπρηνη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: stronger form of prhnh/s

Sense

  1. with the face downwards, with the edge of, forward

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ πολύμητισ ἀναί̈ξειεν Ὀδυσσεὺσ στάσκεν, ὑπαὶ δὲ ἴδεσκε κατὰ χθονὸσ ὄμματα πήξασ, σκῆπτρον δ’ οὔτ’ ὀπίσω οὔτε προπρηνὲσ ἐνώμα, ἀλλ’ ἀστεμφὲσ ἔχεσκεν ἀί̈δρεϊ φωτὶ ἐοικώσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 26:8)

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

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