Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προσεῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσεῷος προσεῷον

Structure: προσεῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. towards the east

Examples

  • Μεγασθένησ δὲ περὶ τῶν μυρμήκων οὕτω φησὶν ὅτι ἐν Δέρδαισ, ἔθνει μεγάλῳ τῶν προσεῴων καὶ ὀρεινῶν Ἰνδῶν, ὀροπέδιον εἰή τρισχιλίων πωσ τὸν κύκλον σταδίων· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 88:2)

Synonyms

  1. towards the east

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

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