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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)
  • εἰσ τὸν αὐτόν ὑψιμέδων Θεοῦ υἱέ, φαοσφόρον ἀίδιον φῶσ, σήν μοι ὄπαζε χάριν καὶ νῦν καὶ ἔπειτα καὶ αἰεί, ὡσ προθέλυμνον ἐοῦσαν ὅτῳ καὶ ὅπῃ κατανεύσεισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 261)
  • πολλὰσ ἐκ κεφαλῆσ προθελύμνουσ ἕλκετο χαίτασ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 30:4)
  • πολλὰ δ’ ὅ γε προθέλυμνα χαμαὶ βάλε δένδρεα μακρὰ αὐτῇσιν ῥίζῃσι καὶ αὐτοῖσ ἄνθεσι μήλων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 28:2)

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

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