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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

  • ἐπεί γε μὲν δὴ πάντ’ ἐπίστασαι λόγον, κείνου τε καὶ σὴν ἐξ ἴσου κοινὴν χάριν καὶ στέργε τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ βούλου λόγουσ, οὓσ εἶπασ ἐσ τήνδ’, ἐμπέδωσ εἰρηκέναι· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral 11:6)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ λάχοσ διανταία Μοῖρ’ ἐπέκλωσεν ἐμπέδωσ ἔχειν, θνατῶν τοῖσιν αὐτουργίαι ξυμπέσωσιν μάταιοι, τοῖσ ὁμαρτεῖν, ὄφρ’ ἂν γᾶν ὑπέλθῃ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • νίκη δ’ ἐπείπερ ἕσπετ’, ἐμπέδωσ μένοι. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 4:2)
  • τίπτε μοι τόδ’ ἐμπέδωσ δεῖμα προστατήριον καρδίασ τερασκόπου ποτᾶται, μαντιπολεῖ δ’ ἀκέλευστοσ ἄμισθοσ ἀοιδά, οὐδ’ ἀποπτύσαι δίκαν δυσκρίτων ὀνειράτων θάρσοσ εὐπειθὲσ ἵ‐ ζει φρενὸσ φίλον θρόνον; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐμπέδωσ ἄπρηκτον αὐονὴν ἔχει. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 44)

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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