Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐμήκης

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐμήκης εὐμήκες

Structure: εὐμηκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mh=kos

Sense

  1. of a good length, tall

Examples

  • ὡσ ἐκ μεγάλων ἐβλαστήκασ’ ἐπί τ’ εὐμήκεισ ἥκουσι τύχασ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests4)
  • καὶ γὰρ αὗται εὐμήκεισ οὖσαι αἱ τρίχεσ ὁρᾶν μὲν οὐ κωλύουσι τὸν ἵππον, ἀποσοβοῦσι δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὰ λυποῦντα. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 7:4)
  • οἱ δὲ Γαλάται τοῖσ μὲν σώμασίν εἰσιν εὐμήκεισ, ταῖσ δὲ σαρξὶ κάθυγροι καὶ λευκοί, ταῖσ δὲ κόμαισ οὐ μόνον ἐκ φύσεωσ ξανθοί, ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ τῆσ κατασκευῆσ ἐπιτηδεύουσιν αὔξειν τὴν φυσικὴν τῆσ χρόασ ἰδιότητα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 28 1:1)

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

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