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ἕωλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕωλος ἕωλον

Structure: ἑωλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prob. from e(/ws, h)w/s

Sense

  1. a day old, kept till the morrow, stale, stinking
  2. stale, out of date
  3. coming a day too late

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἤδη δὲ ἀμελούμενοσ ὑφ’ ἁπάντων καὶ μηκέθ’ ὁμοίωσ περίβλεπτοσ ὤν ‐ ἑώλα γὰρ ἦν ἅπαντα καὶ οὐδὲν ἔτι καινουργεῖν ἐδύνατο ἐφ’ ὅτῳ ἐκπλήξει τοὺσ ἐντυγχάνοντασ καὶ θαυμάζειν καὶ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀποβλέπειν ποιήσει, οὗπερ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ δριμύν τινα ἔρωτα ἐρῶν ἐτύγχανεν ‐ τὸ τελευταῖον τοῦτο τόλμημα ἐβουλεύσατο περὶ τῆσ πυρᾶσ, καὶ διέδωκε λόγον ἐσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ εὐθὺσ ἀπ’ Ὀλυμπίων τῶν ἔμπροσθεν ὡσ ἐσ τοὐπιὸν καύσων ἑαυτόν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:47)
  • εἶτά σε κελεύσει ζηλοῦν ἐκείνουσ τοὺσ ἀρχαίουσ ἄνδρασ ἑώλα παραδείγματα παρατιθεὶσ τῶν λόγων οὐ ῥᾴδια μιμεῖσθαι, οἱᾶ τὰ τῆσ παλαιᾶσ ἐργασίασ ἐστίν, Ἡγησίου καὶ τῶν ἀμφὶ Κριτίον καὶ Νησιώτην, ἀπεσφιγμένα καὶ νευρώδη καὶ σκληρὰ καὶ ἀκριβῶσ ἀποτεταμένα ταῖσ γραμμαῖσ. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 9:4)
  • ῥητέον δὲ ὅμωσ, εἰ καὶ ἑώλα δόξω λέγειν, ὡσ μὴ αἰτίαν ἔχοιμι μόνοσ αὐτὰ ἀγνοεῖν, μᾶλλον δὲ παρακλητέοσ ἡμῖν τῶν Μενάνδρου προλόγων εἷσ, ὁ Ἔλεγχοσ, φίλοσ Ἀληθείᾳ καὶ Παρρησίᾳ θεόσ, οὐχ ὁ ἀσημότατοσ τῶν ἐπὶ τὴν σκηνὴν ἀναβαινόντων, μόνοισ ὑμῖν ἐχθρὸσ τοῖσ δεδιόσι τὴν γλῶτταν αὐτοῦ, πάντα καὶ εἰδότοσ καὶ σαφῶσ διεξιόντοσ ὁπόσα ὑμῖν σύνοιδεν. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 3:6)
  • βουλόμενοσ δὴ μὴ ἑώλα δόξαι λέγειν ἀλλ’ αὐτοσχεδιάζειν τὰ ἐκ τοῦ βιβλίου, δεῖται τῶν συνήθων τινόσ ἦν δὲ ἐκ Πατρῶν ἐκεῖνοσ, ἀμφὶ δίκασ ἔχων τὰ πολλὰ ^ ἐπειδὰν αἰτήσῃ τινὰσ ὑποθέσεισ τοῖσ λόγοισ, τὸν Πυθαγόραν αὐτῷ προελέσθαι. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 5:4)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ χρόνοι τούτοισ τοῦ τὴν δίκην ὑποσχεῖν, οὓσ ἂν αὐτοὶ βούλωνται, δίδονται, καὶ τἀδικήμαθ’ ἑώλα τὰ τούτων ὡσ ὑμᾶσ καὶ ψύχρ’ ἀφικνεῖται, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων ἡμῶν ἕκαστοσ, ἄν τι συμβῇ, πρόσφατοσ κρίνεται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 147:2)

Synonyms

  1. coming a day too late

Related

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

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