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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

  • καὶ τὴν μὲν Διὸσ υἱὸσ ἐνήρατο νηλέι χαλκῷ Ἀμφιτρυωνιάδησ σὺν ἀρηιφίλῳ Ιὀλάῳ Ηρακλέησ βουλῇσιν Ἀθηναίησ ἀγελείησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 32:6)
  • ἤδη γὰρ καὶ δεῦρό ποτ’ ἤλυθε δῖοσ Ὀδυσσεὺσ σεῦ ἕνεκ’ ἀγγελίησ σὺν ἀρηϊφίλῳ Μενελάῳ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 26:3)
  • ἤτοι ἐγὼν εἶμι προτὶ Ἴλιον ἠνεμόεσσαν ἄψ, ἐπεὶ οὔ πω τλήσομ’ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὁρᾶσθαι μαρνάμενον φίλον υἱὸν ἀρηϊφίλῳ Μενελάῳ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 37:4)
  • ἀλλ’ οὔ τισ δύνατο Τρώων κλειτῶν τ’ ἐπικούρων δεῖξαι Ἀλέξανδρον τότ’ ἀρηϊφίλῳ Μενελάῳ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 52:2)

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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