A.one upon another, one after another, mostly in pl., “ἐπασσύτεραι κίνυντο φάλαγγες” Il.4.427; “πάντας ἐπασσυτέρους πέλασε χθονί” 8.[277]; σκοποὶ ἷζον αἰὲν ἐπασσύτεροι watchers sat one after another, i.e. at short distances, Od.16.366; “τριηκοσίας πέτρας πέμπον ἐ.” Hes.Th.716; “ἐ. ποσὶν ἕρπον” Nic.Th.717: and in sg., κῦμα . . ὄρνυτ᾽ ἐπασσύτερον wave upon wave, Il.4.423.
ἐπασσύτερος [υ^], α, ον, Ep.Adj.
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.
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