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θυηπόλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυηπόλος θυηπόλον

Structure: θυηπολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/os, pole/w

Sense

  1. busy about sacrifices, sacrificial, a diviner, soothsayer

Examples

  • τὴν γοῦν ἵδρυσιν τοῦ ἱεροῦ Ῥωμύλῳ τινὲσ ἀνατιθέασι τῶν ἀμηχάνων νομίζοντεσ εἶναι πόλεωσ οἰκιζομένησ ὑπ’ ἀνδρὸσ ἐμπείρου μαντικῆσ μὴ κατασκευασθῆναι πρῶτον ἑστίαν κοινὴν τῆσ πόλεωσ, καὶ ταῦτα ἐν Ἄλβᾳ τοῦ κτίστου τραφέντοσ, ἐν ᾗ παλαιὸν ἐξ οὗ τὸ τῆσ θεᾶσ ταύτησ ἱερὸν ἱδρυμένον ἦν, καὶ τῆσ μητρὸσ αὐτοῦ θυηπόλου γενομένησ τῇ θεῷ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 65 1:1)

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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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