Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

χαλκέμβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκέμβολος χαλκέμβολον

Structure: χαλκεμβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/mbolos

Sense

  1. with bronze beak

Examples

  • ὑπόδειγμα δὲ αὐτοῦ τοιοῦτον οἳ δ’ ἐπείγοντο πλωταῖσ ἀπήναισι χαλκεμβόλοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1735)
  • εἶχον γὰρ οἱ περὶ τὸν Μάγωνα σὺν ταῖσ ὁλκάσι καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ ταῖσ ἐπικώποισ, οὔσαισ χαλκεμβόλοισ, ναῦσ οὐκ ἐλάττουσ πεντακοσίων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 58 14:2)

Related

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

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