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πωλικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πωλικός πωλική πωλικόν

Structure: πωλικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pw=los

Sense

  1. of foals, fillies, young horses, drawn by horses, in chariot drawn by horses
  2. of any young animal, the girls'

Examples

  • οὔκ, ἀλλὰ δεσμὰ πωλικῶν ἐξ ἀντύγων κλάζει σιδήρου· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode3)
  • αἳ δ’ ἐσ τὸ πρόσθεν στῆτε πωλικῶν ζυγῶν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 1:7)
  • ὄλοιθ’ ὃσ πόλει μεγάλ’ ἐπεύχεται, κεραυνοῦ δέ νιν βέλοσ ἐπισχέθοι, πρὶν ἐμὸν ἐσθορεῖν δόμον, πωλικῶν θ’ ἑδωλίων ὑπερκόπῳ δορί ποτ’ ἐκλαπάξαι. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 11)

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

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