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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

  • οἲ ’γώ, φίλοι, πρόστητ’ ἀναγκαίασ τύχησ, καὶ σπεύσαθ’, οἱ μὲν Τεῦκρον ἐν τάχει μολεῖν, οἱ δ’ ἑσπέρουσ ἀγκῶνασ, οἱ δ’ ἀντηλίουσ ζητεῖτ’ ἰόντεσ τἀνδρὸσ ἔξοδον κακήν. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:15)

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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