Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀντάξιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντάξιος ἀντάξιη ἀντάξιον

Structure: ἀνταξι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. worth just as much as
  2. worth as much, worth no less

Examples

  • ἐν μὲν γὰρ ἰατρικῇ καθ’ Ὅμηρον ὁ ἀνὴρ πολλῶν ἀντάξιοσ ἄλλων οὐκ εὐμενὴσ δὲ πρὸσ φιλοσοφίαν, ἀλλ’ ἀεί τι τραχὺ καὶ δύσκολον ἔχων ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 1 2:2)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ κυνὸσ ἀντάξιοσ οὐδ’ ὄνου μὰ Δία δειλὸσ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἄναλκισ, ὑπὸ πλούτου καὶ μαλακίασ διερρυηκώσ πάλιν αἴσχιστα δοκεῖ τὸν υἱὸν ἡ Θέτισ ἐφ’ ἡδονὰσ παρακαλεῖν καὶ ἀναμιμνῄσκειν ἀφροδισίων. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 12 4:1)
  • τῶ καί σε λιλαιόμενοσ μεθέηκεν, δείματι, μή τισ ἑοῦ ἀντάξιοσ ἄλλοσ ἀνάσσοι ἀθανάτων, ἀλλ’ αἰὲν ἑὸν κράτοσ εἰρύοιτο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 13:40)
  • ἰητρὸσ γὰρ ἀνὴρ πολλῶν ἀντάξιοσ ἄλλων· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 456:3)
  • πᾶσ γὰρ ὅ τ’ ἐπὶ γῆσ καὶ ὑπὸ γῆσ χρυσὸσ ἀρετῆσ οὐκ ἀντάξιοσ. (Plato, Laws, book 5 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. worth as much

Related

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

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