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πωλικός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: pōlikos

Principal Part: πωλικός πωλική πωλικόν

Structure: πωλικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πῶλος

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 δ᾿ 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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