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αἰανής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰανής αἰανές

Structure: αἰανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: The prob. deriv. is from ai)ei/, everlasting, whence may come the notion of neverending, wearisome, dreary.

Sense

  1. dreary, dismal, direful, horrid
  2. for ever

Examples

  • ὅπωσ αἰανῆ κλύῃσ νέα τ’ ἄχη, δέσποτα δεσπότου φάνηθι. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 31)
  • ἱέτ’ αἰανῆ καὶ πάνδυρτον δύσθροον αὐδάν. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • γαστρὶ δὲ πᾶσ τισ ἀμύνων λιμὸν αἰανῆ τέταται· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 1 16:1)
  • εἴ τισ ἀνδρῶν εὐτυχήσαισ ἢ σὺν εὐδόξοισ ἀέθλοισ ἢ σθένει πλούτου κατέχει φρασὶν αἰανῆ κόρον, ἄξιοσ εὐλογίαισ ἀστῶν μεμίχθαι. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 3 1:1)
  • ἡμεῖσ γάρ ἐσμεν Νυκτὸσ αἰανῆ τέκνα. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode9)

Synonyms

  1. for ever

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

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