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ἀντήλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντήλιος ἀντήλιη ἀντήλιον

Structure: ἀντηλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Note that it is not not a)nq-h/lios

Sense

  1. opposite the sun, facing east, stood in the sun
  2. like the sun

Examples

  • τίσ οἴκων θυοδόκων ὑπερτελὴσ ἀντήλιον πρόσωπον ἐκφαίνει θεῶν; (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic23)
  • οἱ δ’ ὅλωσ τὴν λεγομένην Χίμαιραν ὄροσ ἀντήλιον γεγονέναι φασὶ καὶ ποιεῖν ἀνακλάσεισ ἐν τῷ θέρει χαλεπὰσ καὶ πυρώδεισ, ὑφ’ ὧν ἀνὰ τὸ πεδίον σκεδαννυμένων μαραίνεσθαι τοὺσ καρπούσ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 3:2)
  • οἱ δ’ ὅλωσ τὴν λεγομένην Χίμαιραν ὄροσ ἀντήλιον γεγονέναι φασὶ καὶ ποιεῖν ἀνακλάσεισ ἐν τῷ θέρει χαλεπὰσ καὶ πυρώδεισ, ὑφ’ ὧν ἀνὰ τὸ πεδίον σκεδαννυμένων μαραίνεσθαι τοὺσ καρπούσ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. like the sun

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

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