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προθέλυμνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προθέλυμνος προθέλυμνον

Structure: προθελυμν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qe/lumnon

Sense

  1. from the foundations or roots, by the roots, uprooted
  2. close-pressed, the several shields

Examples

  • εἶτα Κρατίνου μεμνημένοσ, ὃσ πολλῷ ῥεύσασ ποτ’ ἐπαίνῳ διὰ τῶν ἀφελῶν πεδίων ἔρρει, καὶ τῆσ στάσεωσ παρασύρων ἐφόρει τὰσ δρῦσ καὶ τὰσ πλατάνουσ καὶ τοὺσ ἐχθροὺσ προθελύμνουσ· (Aristotle, Parabasis, parabasis9)
  • πολλὰσ δ’ ἐκ κεφαλῆσ προθελύμνουσ εἷλκον ἀκάνθασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 6:3)
  • πολλὰσ ἐκ κεφαλῆσ προθελύμνουσ ἕλκετο χαίτασ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 30:4)
  • αὐτὰρ ὅτ’ ἐσ νῆάσ τε ἴδοι καὶ λαὸν Ἀχαιῶν, πολλὰσ ἐκ κεφαλῆσ προθελύμνουσ ἕλκετο χαίτασ ὑψόθ’ ἐόντι Διί, μέγα δ’ ἔστενε κυδάλιμον κῆρ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 10 2:5)

Related

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

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