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ἀρηίφιλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρηίφιλος ἀρηίφιλη ἀρηίφιλον

Structure: ἀρηιφιλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. dear to Ares, favoured of the god of war

Examples

  • ὦ Τρῶεσ ἀρηί̈φιλοι, Ζεὺσ ὑψιμέδων, ὃσ ἅπαντα δέρκεται, οὐκ αἴτιοσ θνατοῖσ μεγάλων ἀχέων, ἀλλ’ ἐν μέσῳ κεῖται κιχεῖν πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ Δίκαν ἰθεῖαν, ἁγνᾶσ Εὐνομίασ ἀκόλουθον καὶ πινυτᾶσ Θέμιτοσ· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 15 6:1)
  • τοῦ μὲν ἀντίθεοι ἀρίστευον υἱέεσ υἱέων τ’ ἀρηί̈φιλοι παῖδεσ ἀνορέᾳ χάλκεον στονόεντ’ ἀμφέπειν ὅμαδον· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 8 8:1)
  • "Τρῶεσ ἀρηΐφιλοι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2111)

Synonyms

  1. dear to Ares

Related

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

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