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τέθριππος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέθριππος τέθριππον

Structure: τεθριππ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/ttares, i(/ppos

Sense

  1. with four horses abreast, four-horsed
  2. a four-horse chariot, a team of four abreast

Examples

  • τὸ τᾶσ δὲ λευκοπτέρου φίλιον Ἁμέρασ βροτοῖσ φέγγοσ ὀλοὸν εἶδε γαῖαν, εἶδε περγάμων ὄλεθρον, τεκνοποιὸν ἔχουσα τᾶσδε γᾶσ πόσιν ἐν θαλάμοισ, ὃν ἀστέρων τέθριπποσ ἔλα‐ βε χρύσεοσ ὄχοσ ἀναρπάσασ, ἐλπίδα γᾷ πατρίᾳ μεγάλαν· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 23)

Synonyms

  1. with four horses abreast

  2. a four-horse chariot

Related

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

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