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ῥίψοπλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥίψοπλος ῥίψοπλον

Structure: ῥιψοπλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. throwing away one's arms

Examples

  • πρὸσ τάδ’, ὦ πολιοῦχοι θεοί, τοῖσι μὲν ἔξω πύργων ἀνδρολέτειραν κῆρα, ῥίψοπλον ἄταν, ἐμβαλόντεσ ἄροισθε κῦδοσ τοῖσδε πολίταισ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 12)

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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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