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ἀξιόρατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀξιόρατος ἀξιόρατη ἀξιόρατον

Structure: ἀξιορατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. worth seeing

Examples

  • τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ὑπὸ ἀπαιδευσίασ ληροῦσι, τὰ μὲν ἀξιόρατα οὔτε ὁρῶντεσ οὔτ̓, εἰ βλέποιεν, κατ̓ ἀξίαν εἰπεῖν δυνάμενοι, ἐπινοοῦντεσ δὲ καὶ ἀναπλάττοντεσ, ὅ τι κεν ἐπ̓ ἀκαιρίμαν γλῶσσαν, φασίν, ἔλθῃ, καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ἀριθμῷ τῶν βιβλίων ἔτι σεμνυνόμενοι, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἐπιγραφαῖσ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 321)

Synonyms

  1. worth seeing

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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