Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπόγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόγονος ἀπόγονη ἀπόγονον

Structure: ἀπογον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)pogi/gnomai

Sense

  1. born or descended from, descendants, offspring

Examples

  • οἱ τέσσαρεσ οὗτοι ἐτέχθησαν ἀπόγονοι τῶν γιγάντων ἐν Γὲθ τῷ Ραφὰ οἶκοσ, καὶ ἔπεσαν ἐν χειρὶ Δαυίδ, καὶ ἐν χειρὶ τῶν δούλων αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 21:22)
  • ὁ λαὸσ οὗτόσ εἰσιν ἀπόγονοι Χαλδαίων, (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 5:6)
  • Ω τῶν Ἁβραμιαίων σπερμάτων ἀπόγονοι παῖδεσ Ἰσραηλῖται, πείθεσθε τῷ νόμῳ τούτῳ καὶ πάντα τρόπον εὐσεβεῖτε, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 18:1)
  • αὗται γὰρ τῶν πολυτελῶν ἐκείνων δείπνων ἀπόγονοι. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 23:5)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἴδιον αὐτοῦ συλλογίζεσθαι, τὸ δανείζειν δὲ καὶ λογίζεσθαι τοὺσ τόκουσ πλησίον εἶναι δοκεῖ τῷ συλλογίζεσθαι, μόνου ἂν εἰή τοῦ σπουδαίου καθάπερ ἐκεῖνο καὶ τοῦτο, καὶ οὐ μόνον γε ἁπλοῦσ, ὥσπερ οἱ ἄλλοι, τοὺσ τόκουσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων ἑτέρουσ τόκουσ λαμβάνειν ἢ γὰρ ἀγνοεῖσ ὅτι τῶν τόκων οἱ μέν εἰσι πρῶτοί τινεσ, οἱ δὲ δεύτεροι, καθάπερ αὐτῶν ἐκείνων ἀπόγονοι; (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 22:11)

Synonyms

  1. born or descended from

Related

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

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