Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀσκελής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσκελής ἀσκελές

Structure: ἀσκελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a euphon. , ske/llw

Sense

  1. dried up, withered
  2. toughly, obstinately, stubbornly

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δὲ τὴν περίοδον ταύτην ἅτ’ οὐδὲν ποδῶν δέον ἀσκελὲσ καὶ ἄπουν αὐτὸ ἐγέννησεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 101:3)
  • ἀλλὰ Ποσειδάων γαιήοχοσ ἀσκελὲσ αἰεὶ Κύκλωποσ κεχόλωται, ὃν ὀφθαλμοῦ ἀλάωσεν, ἀντίθεον Πολύφημον, ὁού κράτοσ ἐστὶ μέγιστον πᾶσιν Κυκλώπεσσι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 7:4)
  • "μηκέτι, Ἀτρέοσ υἱέ, πολὺν χρόνον ἀσκελὲσ οὕτω κλαῖ’, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄνυσίν τινα δήομεν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 58:1)

Synonyms

  1. dried up

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

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