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εἰκαστός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰκαστός εἰκαστή εἰκαστόν

Structure: εἰκαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ei)ka/zw

Sense

  1. comparable, similar

Examples

  • μονιμωτέρα γοῦν τῶν Ἀπελλοῦ καὶ Παρρασίου καὶ Πολυγνώτου γένοιτ’ ἄν, καὶ αὐτῇ ἐκεινῇ παρὰ πολὺ τῶν τοιούτων κεχαρισμένη, ὅσῳ μὴ ξύλου καὶ κηροῦ καὶ χρωμάτων πεποίηται, ἀλλὰ ταῖσ παρὰ Μουσῶν ἐπιπνοίαισ ^ εἴκασται, ἥπερ ἀκριβεστάτη εἰκὼν γένοιτ’ ἂν σώματοσ κάλλοσ καὶ ψυχῆσ ἀρετὴν ἅμα ἐμφανίζουσα. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 23:3)
  • ἐκ τῆσ εἰκόνοσ μανθάνειν αὐτήν τε αὐτὴν εἰ καλῶσ εἴκασται, καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἧσ ἦν εἰκών, ἢ ἐκ τῆσ ἀληθείασ αὐτήν τε αὐτὴν καὶ τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτῆσ εἰ πρεπόντωσ εἴργασται; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 335:5)
  • ὁ δὲ ναὸσ ὡσ μικρὸσ μεγάλῳ τῷ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ εἴκασται, καὶ τὸ ξόανον ἐοίκεν ὡσ κυπαρίττινον χρυσῷ ὄντι τῷ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 14:2)
  • μέγεθοσ μέν ἐστιν αὐτοῦ διπλάσιον ἢ κανθάρων ὁ μέγιστοσ, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα εἴκασται τοῖσ ἀράχναισ, οἳ ὑπὸ τοῖσ δένδρεσιν ὑφαίνουσι, καὶ δὴ καὶ πόδασ ἀριθμὸν ὀκτὼ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἔχει τοῖσ ἀράχναισ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 14:1)
  • Αἰγιεῦσι δὲ ἔστι μὲν πρὸσ τῇ ἀγορᾷ ναὸσ Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ Ἀρτέμιδι ἐν κοινῷ, ἔστι δὲ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ ἱερὸν Ἀρτέμιδοσ, τοξευούσῃ δὲ εἴκασται, καὶ Ταλθυβίου τοῦ κήρυκοσ τάφοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. comparable

Similar forms

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

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