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ἀσκελής?

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: askelēs

Principal Part: ἀσκελής ἀσκελές

Structure: ἀσκελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: α euphon. , σκέλλω

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)
  • νῦν δ ἤτοι μὲν ἐγὼ παύω χόλον, οὐδέ τί με χρὴ ἀσκελέως αἰεὶ μενεαινέμεν: (Homer, Iliad, Book 19 6:15)

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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