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

  • ἢ τοῦτο φάσκω τοὔποσ, ὡσ νόμοσ βροτοῖσ, ἔσθλ’ ἀντιδοῦναι τοῖσι πέμπουσιν τάδε στέφη, δόσιν γε τῶν κακῶν ἐπαξίαν; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode6)
  • τέχνην λαχοῦσα τὴν τρόπων ἐπαξίαν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 180 1:1)
  • ὕβρισ δὲ δὴ πολυώνυμον ‐ πολυμελὲσ γὰρ καὶ πολυμερέσ ‐ καὶ τούτων τῶν ἰδεῶν ἐκπρεπὴσ ἣ ἂν τύχῃ γενομένη, τὴν αὑτῆσ ἐπωνυμίαν ὀνομαζόμενον τὸν ἔχοντα παρέχεται, οὔτε τινὰ καλὴν οὔτ’ ἐπαξίαν κεκτῆσθαι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 74:2)

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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