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)
  • ξυνήλθομεν δὲ βουκόλοι καὶ ποιμένεσ, κοινῶν λόγων δώσοντεσ ἀλλήλοισ ἔριν ὡσ δεινὰ δρῶσι θαυμάτων τ’ ἐπάξια· (Euripides, episode, trochees 5:1)
  • Ἡρακλέα, ὀψιγόνου οἱ γενομένησ τῆσ παιδόσ, ἐπεί τε δὴ ἐγγὺσ ἔμαθεν ἑωυτῷ ἐοῦσαν τὴν τελευτήν, οὐκ ἔχοντα ὅτῳ ἀνδρὶ ἐκδῷ τὴν παῖδα ἑωυτοῦ ἐπαξίῳ, αὐτὸν μιγῆναι τῇ παιδὶ ἑπταέτεϊ ἐούσῃ, ὡσ γένοσ ἐξ οὗ τε κἀκείνησ ὑπολείπεσθαι Ἰνδῶν βασιλέασ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 9 2:2)
  • οὐκ ἀμφιβόλωσ οἶμαί σφ’ ἐρατῶν ἐκ βαθυκόλπων στηθέων ἥσειν ἄλγοσ ἐπάξιον. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, anapests7)
  • ὁρῶ κυροῦντα τόνδε τῶν ἐπαξίων. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 5:8)
  • ἐπάξιοσ μέν, Οἰδίπουσ, κατοικτίσαι, αὐτόσ τε παῖδέσ θ’ αἵδ’· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 5:1)
  • εἰσ ναὸν τοῦ Διὸσ κτισθέντα παρὰ τῶν Κεκροπιδῶν αὐτοῦ Ζηνὸσ ὅδ’ οἶκοσ ἐπάξιοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7011)

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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