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ἔμπεδος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπεδος ἔμπεδον

Structure: ἐμπεδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, pe/don

Sense

  1. in the ground, firm-set, steadfast, sure and certain
  2. lasting, continual
  3. fast, on and on, without resting, without fail, of a surety

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἔμπεδον ἀκ[αμάτᾳ βρύουσα δόξᾳ στρωφᾶται κατὰ γᾶν [τε καὶ πολυπλάγκταν θ[άλασσαν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 39:1)
  • ἐξαίρετόν μοι δὸσ τόδ’, ἤν τι ναῦσ πάθῃ, χἡ δέλτοσ ἐν κλύδωνι χρημάτων μέτα ἀφανὴσ γένηται, σῶμα δ’ ἐκσῴσω μόνον, τὸν ὁρ́κον εἶναι τόνδε μηκέτ’ ἔμπεδον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 5:31)
  • καὶ τὰ μὲν παρεόντα οὐ δοκέω μεγάλα, τὰ δὲ ὑστέρῳ χρόνῳ ἐσόμενα πάμπαν ἀνιηρά, λέγω δὲ τὰσ ἐκπυρώσιασ καὶ τὴν τοῦ ὅλου συμφορὴν ταῦτα ὀδύρομαι καὶ ὅτι ἔμπεδον οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ὅκωσ ἐσ κυκεῶνα τὰ πάντα συνειλέονται καί ἐστι τὠυτὸ τέρψισ ἀτερψίη, γνῶσισ ἀγνωσίη, μέγα μικρόν, ἄνω κάτω περιχωρέοντα καὶ ἀμειβόμενα ἐν τῇ τοῦ αἰῶνοσ παιδιῇ. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 14:5)
  • αἰνῶσ γὰρ Δαναῶν πέρι δείδια, οὐδέ μοι ἦτορ ἔμπεδον, ἀλλ’ ἀλαλύκτημαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 3:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὁ Σόλων, ἀλλ’ ἡμεῖσ αὐτοῖσ οὐ διαμειψόμεθα τῆσ ἀρετῆσ τὸν πλοῦτον ἐπεὶ τὸ μὲν ἔμπεδὸν ἐστι, χρήματα δ’ ἀνθρώπων ἄλλοτε ἄλλοσ ἔχει. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. in the ground

  2. lasting

Related

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

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