τετρασκελής
From LSJ
εἰ ἀποκρυπτόντων τῶν Μήδων τὸν ἥλιον ὑπὸ σκιῇ ἔσοιτο πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἡ μάχη καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἡλίῳ → if the Medes hid the sun, the battle would be to them in the shade and not in the sun
English (LSJ)
ές, (σκέλος)
A four-legged, four-footed, τ. οἰωνός, of a kind of griffin, A.Pr. 397; χέρσου τ. γονή, i.e. quadrupeds, S.Fr.941.10; τ. ὕβρισμα the wanton violence of Centaurs, E.HF181; τ. κενταυροπληθὴς πόλεμος ib.1272; of bandages, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.23.1, Sor.Fasc.41, Gal. 18(1).774.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1099] ές, vierschenklig, vierfüßig; οἰωνός, Aesch. Prom. 395; Eur. Phoen. 642, u. öfter.
