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ἀλκαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλκαῖος ἀλκαῖη ἀλκαῖον

Structure: ἀλκαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)lkh/

Sense

  1. strong, mighty

Examples

  • Ἰσιδότου, γεννάδαν ὄντα καὶ τῶν ἀνταγωνιστῶν ἑκατέρων ἀλκιμώτερον, εἰ αὐτὸσ μὲν αἴσχιστοσ ὀφθῆναι εἰή τὴν ὄψιν, Ἀλκαῖοσ δὲ ὁ καλὸσ ὁ Μιλήσιοσ ἀνταγωνίζοιτο αὐτῷ, καὶ ἐρώμενοσ, ὥσ φασι, τοῦ Νικοστράτου ὤν. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 9 2:1)
  • φησὶ δὲ καὶ Ἀλκαῖοσ ὁ Μιτυληναῖοσ ποιητήσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 41 1:4)
  • χάριεν γὰρ ἅμα ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ συνεκλιπεῖν τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ, ἃσ μήτε ἄνδρα φησὶν Ἀλκαῖοσ; (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 5 1:2)
  • ἐστεφανοῦντο δὲ καὶ τὰ στήθη καὶ ἐμύρουν ταῦτα, ἐπεὶ αὐτόθι ἡ καρδία, ἐκάλουν δὲ καὶ οἷσ περιεδέοντο τὸν τράχηλον στεφάνουσ ὑποθυμίδασ,6 ὡσ Ἀλκαῖοσ ἐν τούτοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 2:4)
  • καὶ ὁ ἀνδρειότατοσ δέ, προσέτι δὲ καὶ πολεμικὸσ ποιητὴσ Ἀλκαῖοσ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 1:4)
  • Τίσ τὸν Διὸσ σύλλεκτρον οὐκ οἶδεν βροτῶν, Ἀργεῖον Ἀμφιτρύων’, ὃν Ἀλκαῖόσ ποτε ἔτιχθ’ ὁ Περσέωσ, πατέρα τόνδ’ Ἡρακλέουσ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. strong

Related

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

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