Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βαρύτιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βαρύτιμος βαρύτιμη βαρύτιμον

Structure: βαρυτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: timh/

Sense

  1. very costly

Examples

  • ὦ πόλισ, ὦ γῆ, καὶ λευκὸν ὕδωρ, ὕπατοί τε θεοί, καὶ βαρύτιμοι χθόνιοι θήκασ κατέχοντεσ, καὶ Ζεὺσ σωτὴρ τρίτοσ, οἰκοφύλαξ ὁσίων ἀνδρῶν, δέξασθ’ ἱκέτην τὸν θηλυγενῆ στόλον αἰδοίῳ πνεύματι χώρασ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, lyric 1:5)
  • προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ γυνὴ ἔχουσα ἀλάβαστρον μύρου βαρυτίμου καὶ κατέχεεν ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ αὐτοῦ ἀνακειμένου. (, chapter 26 9:1)
  • τῶν δὲ βαρυτίμων βαρέα καὶ τὰ τέλη. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 25:8)

Synonyms

  1. very costly

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

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