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ῥυσίβωμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥυσίβωμος ῥυσίβωμον

Structure: ῥυσιβωμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. defending altars

Examples

  • δέξομαι Παλλάδοσ ξυνοικίαν, οὐδ’ ἀτιμάσω πόλιν, τὰν καὶ Ζεὺσ ὁ παγκρατὴσ Ἄρησ τε φρούριον θεῶν νέμει, ῥυσίβωμον Ἑλλάνων ἄγαλμα δαιμόνων· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. defending altars

Similar forms

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

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