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ὕπαντρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕπαντρος ὕπαντρον

Structure: ὑπαντρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with caverns underneath

Examples

  • ὑπάντρου δὲ καὶ σηραγγώδουσ οὔσησ κατὰ βάθουσ τῆσ γῆσ, σεισμοὶ γενόμενοι πολλάκισ ἐξαίσιοι τοὺσ μὲν ἔφραξαν τῶν πόρων τοὺσ δὲ ἀνέῳξαν, τοὺσ μὲν μέχρι τῆσ ἐπιφανείασ τοὺσ δὲ δι’ ὑπονόμων· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 2 30:3)
  • καὶ ἔνθα ἐξενήξαντο ὀχοῦντεσ αὐτὸν ἄκρα δείκνυται καὶ ὕπαντροσ πέτρα, καὶ καλεῖται ὁ χῶροσ Κοιράνειοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 503)

Synonyms

  1. with caverns underneath

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

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