Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χαλκόδετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκόδετος χαλκόδετον

Structure: χαλκοδετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. brass-bound

Examples

  • καὶ τὰ κύμβαλα δ’ Αἰσχύλοσ ἐν Ἠδωνοῖσ κοτύλασ εἴρηκεν ὁ δὲ χαλκοδέτοισ κοτύλαισ ὀτοβεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 57 4:8)
  • κόναβοσ ἐν πύλαισ χαλκοδέτων σακέων, παῖ Διόσ, ὅθεν πολεμόκραντον ἁγνὸν τέλοσ ἐν μάχᾳ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • ἔτλα καὶ Δανάασ οὐράνιον φῶσ ἀλλάξαι δέμασ ἐν χαλκοδέτοισ αὐλαῖσ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἦ γάρ σευ τὰ ποδηγὰ Πόθων ὠκύπτερα κόψασ, χαλκόδετον σφίγξω σοῖσ περὶ ποσσὶ πέδην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 179 1:1)
  • ὁ δὲ χαλκοδέτοισ κοτύλαισ ὀτοβεῖ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 26:4)

Related

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

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