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ἀνθοσμίας

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνθοσμίας

Etym.: a)/nqos, o)smh/

Sense

  1. redolent of flowers, with a fine "bouquet"

Examples

  • ἔτι καὶ παῖδεσ ὡραῖοι ἦσαν πολλοὶ καὶ γυναῖκεσ ἁβρόταται καὶ μύρα καὶ οἶνοσ ἀνθοσμίασ καὶ τράπεζα ὑπὲρ τὰσ ἐν Σικελίᾳ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:2)
  • "γλεύκει παραχεῖται παρὰ χοῦσ πεντήκοντα εἷσ θαλάσσησ καὶ γίνεται ἀνθοσμίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 582)
  • "ἀνθοσμίασ γίνεται ἐκ νέων ἀμπέλων ἰσχυρότεροσ ἢ ἐκ παλαιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 58 1:1)
  • "τὰσ ὀμφακώδεισ συμπατήσαντεσ ἀπέθεντο καὶ ἀνθοσμίασ ἐγένετο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 58 1:4)
  • ὥστ’ ἔφασαν τοὺσ στρατιώτασ εἰσ τοῦτο τρυφῆσ ἐλθεῖν ὥστ’ οὐκ ἐθέλειν πίνειν, εἰ μὴ ἀνθοσμίασ εἰή. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 8:2)

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

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