Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπάξιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπάξιος ἐπάξιᾱ ἐπάξιον

Structure: ἐπαξι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. worthy, deserving of
  2. deserved, meet, with one's deserts
  3. worth mentioning

Examples

  • ξυνήλθομεν δὲ βουκόλοι καὶ ποιμένεσ, κοινῶν λόγων δώσοντεσ ἀλλήλοισ ἔριν ὡσ δεινὰ δρῶσι θαυμάτων τ’ ἐπάξια· (Euripides, episode, trochees 5:1)
  • ὄψει δὲ κεἴ τισ ἄλλοσ ἤλιτεν βροτῶν ἢ θεὸν ἢ ξένον τιν’ ἀσεβῶν ἢ τοκέασ φίλουσ, ἔχονθ’ ἕκαστον τῆσ δίκησ ἐπάξια. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode, lyric8)
  • Ζηνὸσ γὰρ ἐπάξια μήδετο λέκτρων. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 3:25)
  • τοῖσι ἄλλα τε ἐπάξια ἐστὶ νόμιμα, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἀείσμα ἕν ἐστι, Λίνοσ, ὅσπερ ἔν τε Φοινίκῃ ἀοίδιμοσ ἐστὶ καὶ ἐν Κύπρῳ καὶ ἄλλῃ, κατὰ μέντοι ἔθνεα οὔνομα ἔχει, συμφέρεται δὲ ὡυτὸσ εἶναι τὸν οἱ Ἕλληνεσ Λίνον ὀνομάζοντεσ ἀείδουσι, ὥστε πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα ἀποθωμάζειν με τῶν περὶ Αἴγυπτον ἐόντων, ἐν δὲ δὴ καὶ τὸν Λίνον ὁκόθεν ἔλαβον τὸ οὔνομα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 79 2:2)
  • ἐπαξία γάρ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode15)

Synonyms

  1. worth mentioning

Related

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

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