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προστερνίδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστερνίδιον προστερνίδιου

Structure: προστερνιδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ste/rnon

Sense

  1. a covering for the breast, of horses

Examples

  • ὥπλιζον δὲ καὶ ἵππουσ προμετωπιδίοισ καὶ προστερνιδίοισ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 2:2)
  • οἱ δὲ ἵπποι προμετωπιδίοισ καὶ προστερνιδίοισ καὶ παραμηριδίοισ χαλκοῖσ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a covering for the breast

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

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