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ἀνήλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνήλιος

Structure: ἀνηλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without sun, sunless

Examples

  • εὐμήχανοί τε καὶ τέλειοι, κακῶν τε μνήμονεσ σεμναὶ καὶ δυσπαρήγοροι βροτοῖσ, ἄτιμ’ ἀτίετα διόμεναι λάχη θεῶν διχοστατοῦντ’ ἀνηλίῳ λάμπᾳ, δυσοδοπαίπαλα δερκομένοισι καὶ δυσομμάτοισ ὁμῶσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, strophe 42)

Synonyms

  1. without sun

Related

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

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