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ὀλοίτροχος

oloitrochos · ὁ

large stone, boulder

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Where it lives

Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ὀλοίτροχος · oloitrochos — LSJ

large stone, boulder

large stone, boulder, Ἕκτωρ ἀντικρὺ μεμαώς, ὀλοοίτροχος ὣς ἀπὸ πέτρης, ὅν τε κατὰ στεφάνης ποταμὸς χειμάρροος ὤσῃ ῥήξας . . ἔχματα πετρης Il. 13.137 ; = τὸ κυλινδρικὸν σχῆμα, Democr. 162 ; of the rounded muscles of an athleteʼs arm, ἕστασαν ἠΰτε πέτροι ὀλοίτροχοι, οὕστε κυλίνδων χειμάρρους ποταμὸς μεγάλαις περιέξεσε δίναις Theoc. 22.49 ; rolled down by besieged people upon their assailants, Hdt. 8.52, Orac. ap. eund. 5.92.βʹ, X. An. 4.2.3, Zos. 1.52. (The ancients derived it from ὀλοός ‘destruct

In the wild

ὀλοιτρόχους · oloitrochous Herodotus, Histories 8.52.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8723)

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