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ἐνήλικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνήλικος ἐνήλικον

Structure: ἐνηλικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of age, in the prime of manhood

Examples

  • πρεσβύτην γὰρ ἤδη τοσοῦτον ἐνηλίκῳ παιδὶ καὶ γυναικὶ νύμφῃ παιδὸσ ἐπιγῆμαι κόρην ὑπηρέτου καὶ δημοσιεύοντοσ ἐπὶ μισθῷ πατρὸσ οὐδαμοῦ καλόν, ἀλλ’ εἴτε πρὸσ ἡδονὴν ταῦτ’ ἔπραξεν εἴτ’ ὀργῇ διὰ τὴν ἑταίραν ἀμυνόμενοσ τὸν υἱόν, αἰσχύνην ἔχει καὶ τὸ ἔργον καὶ ἡ πρόφασισ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 6 1:2)
  • τὴν βασιλείαν ἔτι ζῶν ἐνηλίκῳ γενομένῳ παρέδωκε. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 1 3:2)
  • ἀνθ’ ὧν ἐκεῖνοσ οὐδὲν ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ τέκνον ἔθρεψε, πολλῶν γενομένων, ἀλλὰ τῷ Εὐμένουσ υἱῷ τὴν βασιλείαν ἔτι ζῶν ἐνηλίκῳ γενομένῳ παρέδωκε. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 1 1:5)

Related

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

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