Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔκκριτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκκριτος ἔκκριτον

Structure: ἐκκριτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kkri/_nw

Sense

  1. picked out, select, above all, eminently

Examples

  • εἰ δ’ αἰχμαλώτων χρή τιν’ ἔκκριτον θανεῖν κάλλει θ’ ὑπερφέρουσαν, οὐχ ἡμῶν τόδε· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:10)
  • οὐκ ἦν ἄρ’ ἐν θεοῖσι πλὴν οὑμοὶ πόνοι Τροία τε πόλεων ἔκκριτον μισουμένη, μάτην δ’ ἐβουθυτοῦμεν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic1)
  • κεἴπερ τάδ’ ἐστί, πλῆθοσ ἔκκριτον στρατοῦ λείπει κεναῖσιν ἐλπίσιν πεπεισμένοσ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics 2:3)
  • ἔκκριτον δέ νιν δώρημα κείνῳ ’δωκεν Ἀλκμήνησ γόνοσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:7)
  • ἄγεν δ’ ὁ μὲν ἔκκριτον ἄλλων ἀρνειὸν μήλων, ὁ δ’ ἀεργηλὴν ἔτι πόρϝιν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 19:10)

Synonyms

  1. picked out

Related

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

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