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ἐπίφοβος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίφοβος ἐπίφοβον

Structure: ἐπιφοβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. frightful, terrible

Examples

  • οἵτε γὰρ ἐλέφαντεσ ἐσῆλθον τοὺσ φύλακασ καταπατήσαντεσ, καὶ οἱ σαλπικταὶ τὸ αὑτῶν ἐποίουν, καὶ ὁ θόρυβοσ Ῥωμαίοισ ἐξ εὐνῆσ ἀνισταμένοισ ἐν μελαίνῃ νυκτὶ ἀδόκητοσ ἐμπεσὼν ἐπιφοβώτατοσ ἦν, τῶν τε ῥωμαϊζόντων ἀκούοντεσ ὅτι παρήγγελται φεύγειν ἐσ τὸν λόφον, περὶ τοῦτ’ ἐγίγνοντο. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7 1:4)
  • οὕτω μὲν ὁ Ἀντώνιοσ ἐσ μέγα δυνάμεωσ αὖθισ ἐπῆρτο, καὶ τοῖσ ἐχθροῖσ ἦν ἐπιφοβώτατοσ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 12 2:8)

Synonyms

  1. frightful

Related

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

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