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ἐπιήρανος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιήρανος ἐπιήρανον

Structure: ἐπιηραν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h)=ra

Sense

  1. pleasing, acceptable
  2. assisting against, defending, governing

Examples

  • τρίγλη δ’ οὐκ ἐθέλει νεύρων ἐπιήρανοσ εἶναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 8 3:4)
  • τοῦ σὺ πάτερ, Διόνυσε, φιλοστεφάνοισιν ἀρέσκων ἀνδράσιν, εὐθύμων συμποσίων πρύτανι, χαῖρε, δίδου δ’ αἰῶνα, καλῶν ἐπιήρανε ἔργων, πίνειν καὶ παίζειν καὶ τὰ δίκαια φρονεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 68 2:2)
  • τρίγλη δ’ οὐκ ἐθέλει νεύρων ἐπιήρανοσ εἶναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1262)
  • δίδου δ’ αἰῶνα, καλῶν ἐπιήρανε ἔργων, πίνειν καὶ παίζειν καὶ τὰ δίκαια φρονεῖν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 12)
  • ἡ πάροσ ἀντιπάλων ἐπιήρανοσ ἀσπὶσ ἀκόντων, ἡ φόνιον στυγνοῦ κῦμα φέρουσα, μόθου, ἄγριον οὐδ’ ὅτε πόντοσ ἐπὶ κλόνον ἤλασε φωτί, καὶ πικρὴ ναυτέων ἔπλεθ’ ἁλιφθορίη, συζυγίησ ἀμέλησα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 411)

Synonyms

  1. pleasing

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

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