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τριηρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριηρικός τριηρική τριηρικόν

Structure: τριηρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from trih/rhs

Sense

  1. of or for a trireme

Examples

  • ἐν τούτῳ δὲ καὶ κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλατταν ἐξαίφνησ ἐπιχειρούμενοσ ὁ Νικίασ ταῖσ μὲν ναυσὶν ἡττώμενοσ τὸ πρῶτον ὅμωσ ἐξέωσε καὶ κατέδυσε πολλὰσ τῶν πολεμίων, πρὸσ δὲ τὸ πεζὸν οὐκ ἔφθασε βοηθῶν, ἀλλ’ ἄφνω προσπεσὼν ὁ Γύλιπποσ εἷλε τὸ Πλημμύριον, ἐν ᾧ σκευῶν τριηρικῶν καὶ χρημάτων πολλῶν ἀποκειμένων ἐκράτησε πάντων καὶ διέφθειρεν ἄνδρασ οὐκ ὀλίγουσ καὶ ζῶντασ ἔλαβε· (Plutarch, , chapter 20 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a trireme

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

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