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τρίλλιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίλλιστος τρίλλιστον

Structure: τριλλιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for tri/listos

Sense

  1. thrice, often or earnestly) prayed for

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ φιληταί, οἵ ποτε τριλλίστωσ ἀντίον ἐρχόμενοι νῦν μέγα πεφρίκασι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2712)
  • Τρωσὶν μέν ῥ’ ἀέκουσιν ἔδυ φάοσ, αὐτὰρ Ἀχαιοῖσ ἀσπασίη τρίλλιστοσ ἐπήλυθε νὺξ ἐρεβεννή. (Homer, Iliad, Book 8 50:3)
  • καὶ ὁ ποιητήσ "τρισμάκαρεσ Δαναοί," καί "ἀσπασίη τρίλλιστοσ," "τριχθά τε καὶ τετραχθά. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 72:13)

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

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