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τυμβοχόος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τυμβοχόος τυμβοχόον

Structure: τυμβοχο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xe/w

Sense

  1. throwing up a cairn or barrow
  2. cairns thrown up

Examples

  • οὕτω πετηνῶν τόνδ’ ὑπ’ οἰωνῶν δοκεῖ ταφέντ’ ἀτίμωσ τοὐπιτίμιον λαβεῖν, καὶ μήθ’ ὁμαρτεῖν τυμβοχόα χειρώματα μήτ’ ὀξυμόλποισ προσσέβειν οἰμώγμασιν, ἄτιμον εἶναι δ’ ἐκφορᾶσ φίλων ὕπο. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode8)

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

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