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σκυλοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκυλοφόρος σκυλοφόρον

Structure: σκυλοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. receiving the spoil

Examples

  • τισ τροπαιοῦχον εἴτε σκυλοφόρον καλεῖν ὡσ ἀξιοῦσί τινεσ εἴθ’, ὅτι πάντων ὑπερέχει καὶ πᾶσαν ἐν κύκλῳ περιείληφε τὴν τῶν ὄντων φύσιν τε καὶ κίνησιν, ὑπερφερέτην οὐχ ἁμαρτήσεται τῆσ ἀληθείασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 34 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. receiving the spoil

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

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