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προσηῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσηῷος προσηῷη προσηῷον

Structure: προσηῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for prosew=|os, doric potaw=|os

Sense

  1. towards the East

Examples

  • εἶτα πιστεύειν ἄξιον τούτῳ γράφοντι περὶ ἀνδρὸσ ἢ πόλεωσ μιᾶσ, ὃσ ἑνὶ ῥήματι τὸ νίκημα τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἀφαιρεῖται καὶ τὸ τρόπαιον καθαιρεῖ καὶ τὰσ ἐπιγραφάσ, ἃσ ἔθεντο παρὰ τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι τῇ Προσηῴᾳ, κόμπον ἀποφαίνει καὶ ἀλαζονείαν; (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 34 12:1)

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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