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χερσόθεν?

Adverb; Transliteration: chersothen

Principal Part: χερσόθεν

Etym.: χέρσος

Sense

  1. from dry land
  2. from the ground

Examples

  • ὥστ ἐξορᾶσθαι ῥόθια χερσόθεν μόλις. (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:25)
  • πάρα δ ἄμμι τὰ κύντατα πημανθῆναι τῇδ ἐπ ἐρημαίῃ πεπτηότας, εἰ καὶ ἀῆται χερσόθεν ἀμπνεύσειαν: (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 20:20)
  • τὸν δὲ χυθεὶς περὶ πάντα πεδήσατο, φωτὶ δ ὑπ ἄγρης ἐμβυθίης ἄγρη χερσόθεν ἠντίασε: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 227 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. from dry land

  2. from the ground

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

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