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ἐπίγειος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίγειος ἐπίγειον

Structure: ἐπιγει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/a, gh=

Sense

  1. terrestrial

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὲν ὑπὸ ἀπορίασ τῶν ἐπιγείων ἐπὶ τὰ οὐράνια ἐκτείνοι τισ τὸν λόγον, ἧττον ἂν ὁ τοιοῦτοσ αἰτίαν ἔχοι ὑπὸ ἀσεβείασ αὐτὸ δρᾶν σὺ δὲ τοσαῦτα ἔχων κάλλη γυναικῶν Ἀφροδίτῃ καὶ Ἥρᾳ εἰκάσαι αὐτὴν ἐτόλμησασ οὐδὲν δέον. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 13:7)
  • εἰ τῶν ἐπιγείων τισ ἡμῶν καὶ χαμαὶ ἐρχομένων κάλλιστα καὶ ἄριστα εἶπεν, ὅσον ἂν ἐκίνησε γέλωτα; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 29 1:3)
  • ποιοῦντα μὲν καὶ διακρίνοντα τὰσ ὡρ́ασ, αὔξοντα δὲ καὶ τρέφοντα πάντα μὲν τὰ ζῷα, πάντα δὲ τὰ φυτά, χορηγοῦντα δὲ τὸ κάλλιστον καὶ ἥδιστον ὁραμάτων, φῶσ, οὗ χωρὶσ οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων ὄφελοσ οὐδὲν τῶν καλῶν, οὔτε οὐρανίων οὔτε ἐπιγείων, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τοῦ ζῆν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 82:2)
  • βροντῆσ γὰρ εἴδωλον ἄφθογγον ἢ κεραυνοῦ εἴκασμα ἀλαμπὲσ ἐκ τῶν τῇδε ἐπιγείων μεταλλευμάτων ποῖον ἄν τι καὶ γένοιτο; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 102:1)
  • πόθεν δὲ πρὸσ τὴν αὔξησιν καὶ μείωσιν τῆσ σελήνησ καὶ τὴν τοῦ ἡλίου πρόσοδον καὶ ἄφοδον τοσαύτη παραλλαγὴ καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ἐναντία μεταβολὴ τῶν ἐπιγείων θεωρεῖται; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. terrestrial

Related

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

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