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χερομυσής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χερομυσής χερομυσές

Structure: χερομυση (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mu/sos

Sense

  1. defiling the hand

Examples

  • θιγόντι δ’ οὔτι νυμφικῶν ἑδωλίων ἄκοσ, πόροι τε πάντεσ ἐκ μιᾶσ ὁδοῦ <προ>βαίνοντεσ τὸν χερομυσῆ φόνον καθαίροντεσ ἴθυσαν μάταν. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. defiling the hand

Similar forms

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

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