A.sand-hundred, Com. word formed from ψάμμος after the analogy of διακόσιοι, τριακόσιοι, etc., to denote a countless multitude, “ψ. θεαταί” Eup.286 (ψαμμοκ- v. l. ap.Suid.), cf. Ath. 15.671a; also ὀνόματα ψ. grandiloquent terms, Id.6.230d.—So the exaggerated form ψαμμα^κοσιογάργα^ροι , αι, α, Ar.Ach.3 (v.l. ψαμμοκ-): cf. γάργαρα.
ψαμμα^κόσιοι , αι, α,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
How to enter text in Greek:
