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χρυσοφάλαρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσοφάλαρος χρυσοφάλαρον

Structure: χρυσοφαλαρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with trappings of gold

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ βουλὴ Σκιπίωνα μὲν ἐπῄνει, Φαμέαν δ’ ἐτίμησαν ἁλουργίδι καὶ ἐπιπορπήματι χρυσῷ καὶ ἵππῳ χρυσοφαλάρῳ καὶ πανοπλίᾳ καὶ ἀργυρίου δραχμαῖσ μυρίαισ, ἔδωκαν δὲ καὶ μνῶν ἑκατὸν ἀργύρωμα καὶ σκηνὴν καὶ κατασκευὴν ἐντελῆ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 5:9)

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

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