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τυμβωρύχος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τυμβωρύχος

Etym.: o)ru/ssw

Sense

  1. one who digs up graves, a grave-robber

Examples

  • ἦ που τυμβωρύχοσ τισ ἢ ἀνδροφόνοσ ἢ ἱερόσυλόσ ἐστιν; (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 14:7)
  • εἰ γὰρ πατρῷον τὸ χθόνιον ἔχει γέρασ ‐ οὕτω γ’ ἂν εἰή πρὸσ πατρὸσ τυμβωρύχοσ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene28)

Synonyms

  1. one who digs up graves

Related

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

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