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

  • ἦ τοῦδ’ ἐπαίνου τὸ στράτευμ’ ἐπάξιον. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:24)
  • οὐκ ἀμφιβόλωσ οἶμαί σφ’ ἐρατῶν ἐκ βαθυκόλπων στηθέων ἥσειν ἄλγοσ ἐπάξιον. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, anapests7)
  • εἰ δὲ γεύεται ἀνδρὸσ ἀνήρ τι, φαῖμέν κε γείτον’ ἔμμεναι νόῳ φιλήσαντ’ ἀτενέϊ γείτονι χάρμα πάντων ἐπάξιον· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 7 25:2)
  • προφρόνων Μοισᾶν τύχοιμεν, κεῖνον ἅψαι πυρσὸν ὕμνων καὶ Μελίσσῳ, παγκρατίου στεφάνωμ’ ἐπάξιον, ἔρνεϊ Τελεσιάδα. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 4 15:1)
  • ἐπάξιον πέφυκεν, εἰ δή, Παρθένε, τοῦ σοῦ τόκου τὸ σκῆπτρον εὖ διαγράφει, καὶ σαρκὸσ αὐτοῦ τὸ τρισόλβιον πάθοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 16 1:1)

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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