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ταχινός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταχινός ταχινή ταχινόν

Structure: ταχιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for taxu/s, Theocr.

Sense

Examples

  • εἰ καί σοι πτέρυγεσ ταχιναὶ περὶ νῶτα τέτανται, καὶ σκυθικαὶ τόξων ἀκροβολεῖσ ἀκίδεσ, φεύξομ’, Ἔρωσ, ὑπὸ γᾶν σε. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2131)
  • ἤδη οὖν πάρεστι σκοπεῖν τὴν ῥᾳθυμίαν τοῦ ποιήσαντοσ τὸ ἐλεγεῖον τοῦτο οὗ ἡ ἀρχή ἱραὶ τῷ Φοίβῳ, πολλὸν διὰ κῦμα θέουσαι, ἤλθομεν αἱ ταχιναὶ τόξα φυγεῖν ἔλαφοι, εἴθ’ Ἡδύλοσ ἐστὶν εἴθ’ ὁστισοῦν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 6 6:24)

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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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