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

  • λεκτοί τ’ Ἀχαιῶν ἔκκριτοι νεανίαι, σκίρτημα μόσχου σῆσ καθέξοντεσ χεροῖν, ἕσποντο. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:5)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν, ὡσ ἂν ὄντεσ ἔκκριτοι καὶ διὰ τὰσ ἑαυτῶν κτήσεισ ἐπιθυμοῦντεσ εἰρήνησ, συνίεσαν εὐνοϊκὴν τὴν ἐπίπληξιν τοῦ βασιλέωσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 444:1)
  • οὐδενὶ δὲ ὅπλων διαλλάττουσιν οἱ περὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν ἔκκριτοι τῶν ἐν ταῖσ ἴλαισ ἱππέων. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 121:2)

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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