Ἐγχεσίμορος

spear-fighter

Translated by Catharine Roth30 May 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

3 words

[Meaning] a warrior.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐγχεσίμορος· ὁ πολεμιστής.

Betacode

*)egxesi/moros: o( polemisth/s.

From a scholion on Homer, Iliad 2.692 (where the meter requires the spelling of the headword to be e)gxesi/mwros: web address 1). See also (e.g.) Apollonius, Homeric Lexicon 62.4-6; Hesychius epsilon339, epsilon340.
For the etymology cf. epsilon 173, epsilon 183.