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ἀγχώμαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγχώμαλος ἀγχώμαλη ἀγχώμαλον

Structure: ἀγχωμαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gxi o(malo/s

Sense

  1. nearly equal, doubtful

Examples

  • ἐν ᾧ δὲ ταῦτ’ ἐγίνετο χρόνῳ, συνῄεσαν αἵ τε τῶν Ῥωμαίων καὶ αἱ τῶν Αἰκανῶν δυνάμεισ ὁμόσε καὶ καταστᾶσαι ἐμάχοντο, πλήθει τ’ ἀγχώμαλοι οὖσαι καὶ ὁπλισμοῖσ καὶ προθυμίαν παρεχόμεναι τὴν αὐτήν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 46 3:3)
  • ἐτύγχανον δὲ πλήθει τε ἀγχώμαλοι μάλισθ’ αἱ δυνάμεισ αὐτῶν οὖσαι καὶ προθυμίᾳ ὁμοίᾳ χωροῦσαι πρὸσ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἀμφότεραι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 14 4:1)
  • ὁ μὲν δὴ τάδε προύτεινε τοῖσ Ταραντίνοισ, οἱ δὲ οὐκ ἐγέλων ἔτι τὴν στρατιὰν ὁρῶντεσ, ἀλλ’ ἐγίγνοντο ταῖσ γνώμαισ ἀγχώμαλοι, μέχρι τισ ἀποροῦσι καὶ βουλευομένοισ ἔφη, τὸ μὲν ἐκδοῦναί τινασ ἤδη δεδουλωμένων εἶναι, τὸ δὲ πολεμεῖν μόνουσ ἐπισφαλέσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 13:8)
  • ἡ δὲ βουλὴ τότε μὲν ἀγχώμαλοι ταῖσ γνώμαισ ἐσ νύκτα περιῆλθον, ἅμα δ’ ἑῴ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐσ τὸ βουλευτήριον συνελέγοντο· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 8 2:5)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀγχώμαλοι διεκρίθησαν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, τῇ δὲ ἑξῆσ ναυμαχίᾳ ἡσσᾶτο ὁ Δολοβέλλασ, καὶ ὁ Κάσσιοσ αἰρομένου τοῦ χώματοσ ἔκοπτεν αὐτοῦ τὸ τεῖχοσ ἤδη καὶ ἐσάλευεν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 8 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. nearly equal

Related

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

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