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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

  • Ποσειδῶνα δὲ τὸ γεγονὸσ αἰσθόμενον τοὺσ υἱοὺσ κρύψαι κατὰ γῆσ διὰ τὴν πεπραγμένην αἰσχύνην, οὓσ κληθῆναι προσηῴουσ δαίμονασ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 55 7:1)

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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