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ἐφίμερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφίμερος ἐφίμερον

Structure: ἐφιμερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. longed for, desired, charming

Examples

  • "Ἄρτεμι, σοί μέ τι φρὴν ἐφίμερον ὕμνον ὑφαινέμεναι θεόθεν % αδετισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:1)
  • λέγει γοῦν εἰ θείησ, Ἀκάδημε, 6 ἐφίμερον ὕμνον ἀείδειν, ἆθλον δ’ ἐν μέσσῳ παῖσ καλὸν ἄνθοσ ἔχων σοί τ’ εἰή καὶ ἐμοὶ σοφίησ πέρι δηρισάντοιν γνοίησ χ’ ὅσσον ὄνων κρέσσονεσ ἡμίονοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 85 1:3)
  • νέαν φάτιν δὲ πεύθομαι λέγειν τινὰσ ξένουσ μολόντασ οὐδαμῶσ ἐφίμερον, μόρον δ’ Ὀρέστου. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode2)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ νύμφαι Ἑσπερίδεσ ποίπνυον, ἐφίμερον ἀείδουσαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 22:17)
  • τῷ καί τυ μάλα πρόφρων ἀρεσαίμαν, αἴκά μοι τὺ φίλοσ τὸν ἐφίμερον ὕμνον ἀείσῃσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 35)

Synonyms

  1. longed for

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

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