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ἀκμαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκμαῖος ἀκμαῖη ἀκμαῖον

Structure: ἀκμαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)kmh/

Sense

  1. in full bloom, at the prime, blooming, vigorous, in the prime of
  2. in time, in season

Examples

  • πάντα δὲ εὑρ͂εν ὁ Ἐλεάζαροσ τοῦ φρουρίου μετὰ τῶν σικαρίων ἐγκρατὴσ δόλῳ γενόμενοσ ἀκμαῖα καὶ μηδὲν τῶν νεωστὶ κειμένων ἀποδέοντα· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 338:1)
  • ἡ δὲ πηδᾷ καὶ πυρριχίζει καὶ τὴν ἀσπίδα τινάσσει καὶ τὸ δόρυ πάλλει καὶ ἐνθουσιᾷ, καὶ τὸ μέγιστον, καλὴ πάνυ καὶ ἀκμαία γεγένηται ἤδη ἐν βραχεῖ· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:20)

Synonyms

  1. in time

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

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