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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

  • λαὸν μέγαν καὶ πολὺν καὶ εὐμήκη, υἱοὺσ Ἐνάκ, οὓσ σὺ οἶσθα καὶ σὺ ἀκήκοασ. τίσ ἀντιστήσεται κατὰ πρόσωπον υἱῶν Ἐνάκ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 9:2)
  • ἓν μόνον, εὐμήκησ ἐστὶ καὶ ὀρθὴ καὶ μειδιᾷ πάνυ ἐπαγωγόν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:3)
  • ὡσ ἐκ μεγάλων ἐβλαστήκασ’ ἐπί τ’ εὐμήκεισ ἥκουσι τύχασ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests4)
  • τῆσ δὲ Ἀδμήτησ ἑώθεν δηλωσάσησ ὅτι τὸ βρέτασ ἠφανίσθη καὶ ζητήσεωσ γενομένησ εὑρεῖν μὲν αὐτὸ τοὺσ ζητοῦντασ ἐπὶ τῆσ ᾐόνοσ, ὡσ δὲ δὴ βαρβάρουσ Κᾶρασ ὑπονοήσαντασ αὐτόματον ἀποδεδρακέναι, πρόσ τι λύγου θωράκιον ἀπερείσασθαι, καὶ τοὺσ εὐμηκεστάτουσ τῶν κλάδων ἑκατέρωθεν ἐπισπασαμένουσ περιειλῆσαι πάντοθεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 12 4:4)
  • ἐι δὲ ἐσ λεπτὸν καὶ εὐμήκη ὑμένα τελευτᾷ κιονὶσ, οἱο͂́ν τι οὐρίαχον κατὰ πέρασ ἴσχουσα, κράσπεδον τὴν ἐπωνυμίην ἴσχει. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 90)
  • αὕτη πρόσθεν ἐήν ἐρατόχροοσ, εἰαρόμασθοσ, εὔσφυροσ, εὐμήκησ, εὐόφρυσ, εὐπλόκαμοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 761)
  • καὶ εὐμήκησ ἦν, καθά φησι Πλάτων ἐν τῷ Παρμενίδῃ, ὁ δ’ αὐτὸσ ἐν τῷ Σοφιστῇ καὶ ἐν τῷ Φαίδρῳ <αὐτοῦ μέμνηται> καὶ Ἐλεατικὸν Παλαμήδην αὐτὸν καλεῖ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. e'. ZHNWN ELEATHS 1:6)

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

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