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τεθριπποτρόφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεθριπποτρόφος τεθριπποτρόφον

Structure: τεθριπποτροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/fw

Sense

  1. keeping a team of four horses, that could support this contest

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ τῇσι Ἀθήνῃσι τηνικαῦτα εἶχε μὲν τὸ πᾶν κράτοσ Πεισίστρατοσ, ἀτὰρ ἐδυνάστευέ γε καὶ Μιλτιάδησ ὁ Κυψέλου ἐὼν οἰκίησ τεθριπποτρόφου, τὰ μὲν ἀνέκαθεν ἀπ’ Αἰακοῦ τε καὶ Αἰγίνησ γεγονώσ, τὰ δὲ νεώτερα Ἀθηναῖοσ, Φιλαίου τοῦ Αἰάντοσ παιδὸσ γενομένου πρώτου τῆσ οἰκίησ ταύτησ Ἀθηναίου. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 35 2:1)

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

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