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τρίφυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίφυλος τρίφυλον

Structure: τριφυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fulh/

Sense

  1. of three tribes, into three tribes

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Τύλλιοσ, ἐπειδὴ τοὺσ ἑπτὰ λόφουσ ἑνὶ τείχει περιέλαβεν, εἰσ τέτταρασ μοίρασ διελὼν τὴν πόλιν καὶ θέμενοσ ἐπὶ τῶν λόφων ταῖσ μοίραισ τὰσ ἐπικλήσεισ, τῇ μὲν Παλατίνην, τῇ δὲ Σουβουράνην, τῇ δὲ τρίτῃ Κολλίνην, τῇ δὲ τετάρτῃ τῶν μοιρῶν Ἰσκυλίνην, τετράφυλον ἐποίησε τὴν πόλιν εἶναι, τρίφυλον οὖσαν τέωσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 14 1:1)
  • οὗτοσ ὦν ὡνὴρ ἀπικόμενοσ ἐσ τὴν Κυρήνην καὶ μαθὼν ἕκαστα τοῦτο μὲν τριφύλουσ ἐποίησε σφεασ, τῇδε διαθείσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 161 3:1)
  • ἐφεξῆσ δὲ Τεγεατῶν ἀναθήματα ἀπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων Ἀπόλλων ἐστὶ καὶ Νίκη καὶ οἱ ἐπιχώριοι τῶν ἡρώων, Καλλιστώ τε ἡ Λυκάονοσ καὶ Ἀρκὰσ ὁ ἐπώνυμοσ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ οἱ τοῦ Ἀρκάδοσ παῖδεσ Ἔλατοσ καὶ Ἀφείδασ καὶ Ἀζάν, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτοῖσ Τρίφυλοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 7:1)
  • τούτῳ δὲ ἦν οὐκ Ἐρατὼ τῷ Τριφύλῳ μήτηρ, ἀλλὰ Λαοδάμεια ἡ Ἀμύκλα τοῦ ἐν Λακεδαίμονι βασιλεύσαντοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 8:1)
  • ἀνάκειται δὲ καὶ Ἔρασοσ Τριφύλου παῖσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. of three tribes

Related

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

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