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σαῦλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαῦλος σαῦλη σαῦλον

Structure: σαυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. swaggering, straddling

Examples

  • ἥ ῥά οἱ ἀντεβόλησεν ἐπ’ αὐλείῃσι θύρῃσι βοσκομένη προπάροιθε δόμων ἐριθηλέα ποίην, σαῦλα ποσὶν βαίνουσα· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:9)
  • καὶ σαῦλα βαίνων, ἵπποσ ὡσ κορωνίησ σκνιπὸν δὲ τὸν ἀμυδρῶσ βλέποντα Σημωνίδησ ὁ ἰαμβοποιόσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 145)

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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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