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θηροσκόπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηροσκόπος θηροσκόπον

Structure: θηροσκοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. looking out for wild beasts

Examples

  • τοῦ δ’ ἔκλυ’ ἀριστοπάτρα θηροσκόποσ εὐχομένου· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 11 8:2)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν τερφθῇ θηροσκόποσ ἰοχέαιρα, εὐφρήνῃ δὲ νόον, χαλάσασ’ εὐκαμπέα τόξα ἔρχεται ἐσ μέγα δῶμα κασιγνήτοιο φίλοιο, Φοίβου Ἀπόλλωνοσ, Δελφῶν ἐσ πίονα δῆμον, Μουσῶν καὶ Χαρίτων καλὸν χορὸν ἀρτυνέουσα. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. looking out for wild beasts

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

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