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ἔγκοιλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκοιλος ἔγκοιλον

Structure: ἐγκοιλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sinking in hollows, hollow

Examples

  • ταῦτα δὲ χρὴ ἐνθυμεῖσθαι ὡσ κάλλιστα καὶ τῶν ὑδάτων πέρι ὡσ ἔχουσι, καὶ πότερον ἑλώδεσι χρέονται καὶ μαλθακοῖσιν ἢ σκληροῖσί τε καὶ ἐκ μετεώρων καὶ πετρωδέων εἴτε ἁλυκοῖσι καὶ ἀτεράμνοισιν‧ καὶ τὴν γῆν, πότερον ψιλή τε καὶ ἄνυδροσ ἢ δασεῖα καὶ ἔφυδροσ καὶ εἴτε ἔγκοιλόσ ἐστι καὶ πνιγηρὴ εἴτε μετέωροσ καὶ ψυχρή‧ καὶ τὴν δίαιταν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὁκοίῃ ἥδονται, πότερον φιλοπόται καὶ ἀριστηταὶ καὶ ἀταλαίπωροι ἢ φιλογυμνασταί τε καὶ φιλόπονοι καὶ ἐδωδοὶ καὶ ἄποτοι. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , i.5)

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

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