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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

  • διαλιπόντεσ δὲ ἀπὸ ταύτησ μίαν κέλητι ἔθεσαν δρόμον πώλῳ, ἐνάτῃ δὲ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἑξήκοντα συνωρίδι πωλικῇ, καὶ ἐπὶ μὲν τῷ πώλῳ τῷ κέλητι Λυκόρμασ ἀνηγορεύθη Λαρισαῖοσ, Πτολεμαῖοσ δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ συνωρίδι Μακεδών· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 13:2)

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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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