ἐννεάκρουνος
ἀλλ' ἐπὶ καὶ θανάτῳ φάρμακον κάλλιστον ἑᾶς ἀρετᾶς ἅλιξιν εὑρέσθαι σὺν ἄλλοις → even at the price of death, the fairest way to win his own exploits together with his other companions | but even at the risk of death would find the finest elixir of excellence together with his other companions | but to find, together with other young men, the finest remedy — the remedy of one's own valor — even at the risk of death
English (LSJ)
ον,
A with nine spouts, name of a well at Athens, in earlier times (as at this day) called Καλλιρρόη, Hdt.6.137, Th.2.15, Polyzel.2: metaph. of an orator, copious, Lib.Ep.1493.4.
German (Pape)
[Seite 847] mit neun Quellen; ἡ ἐνν., ein Springbrunnen in Athen mit neun Sprudelröhren, der auch καλλιῤῥόη heißt, s. Thuc. 2, 15.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐννεάκρουνος: -ον, ἔχων ἐννέα κρουνούς, ῥέων ἐξ ἐννέα κρουνῶν, ἥξεις ἐπ’ ἐννεάκρουνον εὔυδρον ποτὸν Πολύζηλ. ἐν «Δημοτυνδάρεῳ» 3. ― Ὡς οὐσιαστ. Ἐννεάκρουνος, ἡ, «κρήνη Ἀθήνησιν ἣν πρότερον Καλλιρρόην ἔλεγον· τῶν δὲ τυράννων οὕτως αὐτὴν κατασκευασάντων ἐκλήθη Ἐννεάκρουνος, ὥς φησι καὶ Θουκυδίδης» Ἡσύχ.· φοιτᾶν... ἐπ’ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐννεάκρουνον Ἡρόδ. 6. 137· καὶ κρήνη τῇ νῦν μέν, τῶν τυράννων οὕτω σκευασάντων, Ἐννεακρούνῳ καλουμένῃ, τὸ δὲ πάλαι φανερῶν τῶν πηγῶν οὐσῶν, Καλλιρρόῃ ὠνομασμένῃ Θουκ. 2. 15.
