Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

αἰπεινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰπεινός

Structure: αἰπειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ai)pu/s

Sense

  1. high, lofty
  2. precipitate, hasty
  3. hard to win, difficult

Examples

  • ἐμμὶ δὲ ἔργον Ἰλίου αἰπεινᾶσ, ἃν ἕλον Αἰακίδαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 193)
  • ἰὼ κελαινὰ λόγχα προμάχου δορόσ, ἃ τότε θοὰν νύμφαν ἄγαγεσ ἀπ’ αἰπεινᾶσ τάνδ’ Οἰχαλίασ αἰχμᾷ· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • τὸ κρατήσιππον γὰρ ἐσ ἁρ̀μ’ ἀναβαίνων ματέρι καὶ διδύμοισ παίδεσσιν αὐδὰν μανύει Πυθῶνοσ αἰπεινᾶσ ὁμοκλάροισ ἐπόπταισ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 9 2:1)
  • Αὐτὰρ ὅτ’ αἰγλήεσσα φαεινοῖσ ὄμμασιν Ηὢσ Πηλίου αἰπεινὰσ ἴδεν ἄκριασ, ἐκ δ’ ἀνέμοιο εὔδιοι ἐκλύζοντο τινασσομένησ ἁλὸσ ἄκραι, δὴ τότ’ ἀνέγρετο Τῖφυσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 10:5)
  • ἐμμὶ δὲ εἰκών Ἰλίου αἰπεινᾶσ, ἃν ἕλον Αἰακίδαι. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , mixed meters137)

Synonyms

  1. high

  2. precipitate

  3. hard to win

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

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