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χρυσόπαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσόπαστος

Structure: χρυσοπαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sprinkled gold, gold-spangled, of gold tissue

Examples

  • "μίτρα δὲ χρυσόπαστοσ ἦν, ἣ καυσίαν ἁλουργῆ οὖσαν ἔσφιγγεν, ἐπὶ τὸ νῶτον φέρουσα τὰ τελευταῖα καταβλήματα τῶν ὑφασμάτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:33)
  • καὶ ἐσθὴσ δὲ ποικίλη χρυσόπαστοσ, καὶ βόνασοι καὶ παρδάλεισ καὶ λέοντεσ τιθασοὶ καὶ τῶν ποικίλων ὀρνέων καὶ εὐφθόγγων πλῆθοσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 138:9)

Related

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

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