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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἔσθ’ ὅπου τοιόνδ’ ὄχημα χθὼν κέκευθε πωλικόν. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:15)
  • 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)
  • φοβερὸν γὰρ ἀπαράμυθον ὄμμα πωλικόν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 1:8)
  • πάισ δ’ ἴσον ἀστέρι λάμπει, πωλικὸν ὡσ ἵπποσ χνοῦν ἀποσεισάμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1562)

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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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