τετράτροπος

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ἐπεὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μετιεῖ ἐς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν, ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει → when he has baited a hog's back onto a hook, he throws it into the middle of the river, ... the crocodile lunges toward the voice of a squealing piglet, and having come upon the hogback, swallows it

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Transliteration A: tetrátropos Transliteration B: tetratropos Transliteration C: tetratropos Beta Code: tetra/tropos

English (LSJ)

ἐνιαυτός,

   A with four turning-points, PMag.Lond. 122.79.

Greek Monolingual

-ον, ΜΑ
μσν.
τετραπλός
αρχ.
αυτός που έχει τέσσερεις εποχές («κόσμον ἅπαντα τρέπουσα τετράτροπον εἰς ἐνιαυτόν», πάπ.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < τετρ(α)- + τρόπος (πρβλ. πεντά-τροπος)].