Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὅμωσ δὲ σὺν Κάλχαντι τῷ θυηπόλῳ κοινῇ τὸ τῆσ θεοῦ φίλον, ἐμοὶ δ’ οὐκ εὐτυχέσ, ἐξευπορήσων εἶμι, μόχθον Ἑλλάδοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 4:39)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἀνέστην καὶ χεροῖν καλλιρρόου ἔψαυσα πηγῆσ, σὺν θυηπόλῳ χερὶ βωμὸν προσέστην, ἀποτρόποισι δαίμοσιν θέλουσα θῦσαι πέλανον, ὧν τέλη τάδε. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics 2:2)
  • κατὰ σὸν ἐν δάφναισ ἀνάκτορον θυηπολῶ, Ὑμήν, ὦ Ὑμέναι’, Ὑμήν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric17)

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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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