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χειροπληθής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειροπληθής χειροπληθές

Structure: χειροπληθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: plh=qos

Sense

  1. filling the hand, as large as can be held in the hand

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπεράλλεσθαι τάφρον, εἰ δέοι, ἢ εἴ τι ἄλλο ἐμπόδιον, καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο ἀσκοῦνται ἡμῖν, ἔτι καὶ μολυβδίδασ χειροπληθεῖσ ἐν ταῖν χεροῖν ἔχοντεσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 27:3)
  • ἐν γὰρ βόθροισ ὀρυχθεῖσιν ἐπὶ μικρὸν εὑρίσκονται καὶ χειροπληθεῖσ χρυσίου πλάκεσ ἔσθ’ ὅτε μικρᾶσ ἀποκαθάρσεωσ δεόμεναι. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 2 2:16)

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

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