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ἐπιχθόνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιχθόνιος ἐπιχθόνιον

Structure: ἐπιχθονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. upon the earth, earthly, mortals, earthly ones, men on earth

Examples

  • εἰ γὰρ ἀληθέσ, πῶσ ἀποθειωθεὶσ πλάζομ’ ἐπιχθόνιοσ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 177 1:1)
  • τῷ δ’ οὔ πώ τισ ὁμοῖοσ ἐπιχθόνιοσ γένετ’ ἀνὴρ κοσμῆσαι ἵππουσ τε καὶ ἀνέρασ ἀσπιδιώτασ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 49:4)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἐλεεινότερόσ περ, ἔτλην δ’ οἷ’ οὔ πώ τισ ἐπιχθόνιοσ βροτὸσ ἄλλοσ, ἀνδρὸσ παιδοφόνοιο ποτὶ στόμα χεῖρ’ ὀρέγεσθαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 48:23)
  • τοῦ δὲ Μενεσθέωσ μνησθεὶσ ὁ ποιητὴσ οὐδεμιᾷ τοιαύτῃ προσθήκῃ κέχρηται, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα πάντα περικόψασ εἰσάπαξ φησὶ τῷ δ’ οὔπω τισ ὅμοιοσ ἐπιχθόνιοσ γένετ’ ἀνήρ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 102:6)

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

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