The corpus record

ῥωμᾰλ-έος

romaleos

strong of body

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

strong of body

strong of body, ῥ. τῷ σώματι Pl. Ax. 365a; ἡλικίᾳ Aen.Tact. 1.8 (Sup.); κάμηλοι PFlor. 278 ii 6, al. (iii A.D.); κατὰ χεῖρα Plu. Gen.Socr. 2.597e; ῥ. ὦμοι Arist. Phgn. 809b27; -ώτατος ἐν τῷ λέγειν Plu. CG 4.

2 strong, robust, virile

of things, strong, ῥωμαλεώτεραι πέδαι Hdt. 3.22; ῥίζαι Dsc. 1.16 (Sup.); βίοτος robust, virile, AP 7.413 (Antip.). Adv. -έως Gal. 6.139, Them. Or. 21.249c.

In the wild

ῥωμαλεώτεραι · rhōmaleōterai Herodotus, Histories 3.22.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3017)
ῥωμαλέοι · rhōmaleoi Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 12

Where it came from

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