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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἀκηχεμένῃσιν ἐπουρανίῃσι δικάζων Κύπριδοσ ἀγλαϊήν καὶ ἐπήρατον ᾔνεσα μορφήν, ἡ δὲ περικλήιστον, ἐμῶν ἀντάξιον ἔργων, νύμφην ἱμερόεσσαν ἐμοὶ κατένευσεν ὀπάσσαι, ἣν Ἑλένην ἐνέπουσι, κασιγνήτην Ἀφροδίτησ, ἧσ ἕνεκεν τέτληκα καὶ οἴδματα τόσσα περῆσαι. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1141)
  • "σὺ δέ μοι ἀσφαλέωσ ἔχειν τόδε γάρ μοι χρυσοῦ βέλτερον, τόδε μοι ψυχῆσ ἐμῆσ ἀντάξιον. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 20:9)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ κατάλαβε, εἰ δοκεῖ, καὶ ἔχε ὅλον συλλαβών, τὸ μὲν δὴ πρῶτον οὐχ ὁρῶ ὅ τι ποτ̓ ἂν εἰή τἀγαθόν, ὡσ ἀντάξιον δοκεῖν τῶν πόνων τῶν τοσούτων. (Lucian, 161:1)
  • "φοβησόμεθα γὰρ τὰ αἰσχρὰ καὶ τιμήσομεν ἐπὶ τῷ καλῷ δικαιοσύνην, θεοὺσ ἄρχοντασ ἀγαθοὺσ καὶ δαίμονασ ἔχειν τοῦ βίου φύλακασ ἡγούμενοι καὶ τὸν ὑπὲρ γῆσ καὶ ὑπὸ γῆν χρυσὸν ἀρετῆσ ἀντάξιον μὴ τιθέμενοι καὶ ποιοῦντεσ ἑκουσίωσ διὰ τὸν λόγον, φησι,Ξενοκράτησ, ἃ νῦν ἄκοντεσ διὰ τὸν νόμον. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 30 1:3)
  • "τῶν Ταντάλου λεγομένων ταλάντων καὶ τῆσ αὐτοῦ ἀρχῆσ ἀντάξιον ἐποίησεν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 2:26)

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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