Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐσαεί

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Principal Part: ἐσαεί

Sense

  1. for ever

Examples

  • οὐδ’ ἠξίου τὴν ἔχθραν, ὥσπερ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ κηδεστήσ, ἐσαεὶ καὶ μετὰ φόβου διαφέρειν, οὐδ’ ἐπὶ τῷ Καρχηδονίων κουφόνῳ μέχρι παντὸσ εἶναι, ῥᾳδίωσ ἐσ εὐεργέτασ πρὸσ ἀχαριστίαν τρεπομένων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 4:2)
  • ἡμεῖσ δέ, οὓσ οἱ νῦν τῆσ πατρίδοσ προστάται φασὶν ἐλέῳ περισῴζειν, τήν τε γῆν ὑμῖν τήνδε αὐτὴν ἐσαεὶ βεβαιοῦμεν καὶ βεβαιώσομεν καὶ μάρτυρα τὸν θεὸν τῶνδε ποιούμεθα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 19 6:8)
  • ἥ τε διαδοχή, πασῶν σχεδὸν ἐκλιπουσῶν τῶν ἄλλων, ἐσαεὶ διαμένουσα καὶ νηρίθμουσ ἀρχὰσ ἀπολύουσα ἄλλην ἐξ ἄλλησ τῶν γνωρίμων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 9:4)

Synonyms

  1. for ever

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

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