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πυρίληπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρίληπτος πυρίληπτον

Structure: πυριληπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. seized by fire, volcanic

Examples

  • ὑπὸ δὲ σεισμῶν καὶ ἀναφυσημάτων πυρὸσ καὶ θερμῶν ὑδάτων ἀσφαλτωδῶν τε καὶ θειωδῶν ἡ λίμνη προπέσοι καὶ [αἱ] πέτραι πυρίληπτοι γένοιντο, αἵ τε πόλεισ αἳ μὲν καταποθεῖεν, ἃσ δ’ ἐκλίποιεν οἱ δυνάμενοι φυγεῖν. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 87:4)

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

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