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ἐπιήρανος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: epiēranos

Principal Part: ἐπιήρανος ἐπιήρανον

Structure: ἐπιηραν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ἦρα

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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