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ἐξάγιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξάγιστος ἐξάγιστον

Structure: ἐξαγιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)cagi/zw

Sense

  1. devoted to evil, accursed, abominable
  2. holy things, matters of religion

Examples

  • ταύτησ τῆσ ἀρᾶσ καὶ τῶν ὁρ́κων καὶ τῆσ μαντείασ ἀναγεγραμμένων ἔτι καὶ νῦν, οἱ Λοκροὶ οἱ Ἀμφισσεῖσ, μᾶλλον δὲ οἱ προεστηκότεσ αὐτῶν, ἄνδρεσ παρανομώτατοι, ἐνηργάζοντο τὸ πεδίον, καὶ τὸν λιμένα τὸν ἐξάγιστον καὶ ἐπάρατον πάλιν ἐτείχισαν καὶ συνῴκισαν, καὶ τέλη τοὺσ καταπλέοντασ ἐξέλεγον, καὶ τῶν ἀφικνουμένων εἰσ Δελφοὺσ πυλαγόρων ἐνίουσ χρήμασι διέφθειρον, ὧν εἷσ ἦν Δημοσθένησ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 113 1:1)
  • "ὁρᾶτε τοῖσ ὀφθαλμοῖσ τὸν ἐξάγιστον καὶ ἐπάρατον λιμένα τετειχισμένον· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1192)
  • ἅπαντα γὰρ ἐπιτρέψαντεσ τῷ δήμῳ τὰ τῶν τυράννων ἄγειν τε καὶ φέρειν, τὸν ἐν τούτῳ γενόμενον τῷ πεδίῳ σῖτον τὸν μὲν ἐπὶ ταῖσ καλάμαισ, τὸν δ’ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἔτι ἅλωσιν κείμενον καὶ τὸν ἤδη κατειργασμένον οὐκ ἐπέτρεψαν οὐδενὶ φέρειν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἐξάγιστόν τε καὶ οὐχ ὡσ ἐπιτήδειον εἰσ οἰκίασ εἰσενεχθῆναι, εἰσ τὸν ποταμὸν καταβαλεῖν ἐψηφίσαντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 13 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. devoted to evil

Related

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

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