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πυργοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυργοφόρος πυργοφόρον

Structure: πυργοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bearing a tower

Examples

  • ὁ Αἰμίλιοσ δὲ βωμὸν ἱδρύσασ ἐνίκησε καὶ ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα πυργοφόρουσ ἐλέφαντασ εἰσ Ῥώμην κατέπεμψεν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 6 1:3)
  • δὲ βωμὸν ἱδρύσασ ἐνίκησε καὶ ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα πυργοφόρουσ ἐλέφαντασ εἰσ Ῥώμην κατέπεμψεν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 6 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. bearing a tower

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

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