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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)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔσθ’ ὅπου τοιόνδ’ ὄχημα χθὼν κέκευθε πωλικόν. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:15)
  • θείνοντε δ’ οὐρᾷ πωλικῆσ ῥινοῦ τρίχα ἤλαυνον, αἳ δ’ ἔρρεγκον ἐξ ἀντηρίδων θυμὸν πνέουσαι κἀνεχαίτιζον φόβῳ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:3)
  • οἳ δ’ ὄχημα πωλικὸν λαβόντεσ ἵππων ἱέσαν φυγῇ πόδα. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:12)
  • τοῖν νεογνοῖν δὲ τὸ μὲν ἄνω ἔχει αὐτὴ ἐν ταῖσ ἀγκάλαισ καὶ τρέφει ἀνθρωπικῶσ ἐπέχουσα τὸν γυναικεῖον μαστόν, τὸ δ̓ ἕτερον ἐκ τῆσ ἵππου θηλάζει ἐσ τὸν πωλικὸν τρόπον· (Lucian, Zeuxis 7:2)

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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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