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τρίπωλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίπωλος τρίπωλον

Structure: τριπωλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or with three horses

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἱππικαῖσ ἁμίλλαισ ἐπιτηδεύματα δύο τῶν πάνυ παλαιῶν ὡσ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἐνομοθετήθη φυλαττόμενα ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων μέχρι τῶν κατ’ ἐμὲ διάκειται χρόνων, τό τε περὶ τὰ τρίπωλα τῶν ἁρμάτων, ὃ παρ’ Ἕλλησι μὲν ἐκλέλοιπεν, ἀρχαῖον ὄν ἐπιτήδευμα καὶ ἡρωικόν, ᾧ ποιεῖ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ Ὅμηροσ ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ χρωμένουσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 73 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or with three horses

Similar forms

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

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