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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 stale, out of date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

  • μὴ δή, πρὸσ Διόσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, συγχωρήσητε αὐτῷ ἑκούσιον τὴν ἀνάληψιν πεποιημένῳ καὶ λύσαντι τὴν γνῶσιν τοῦ πάλαι δικαστηρίου καὶ ἀκυρώσαντι τὴν ὀργὴν αὖθισ τὴν ^ αὐτὴν τιμωρίαν ἀνακαλεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐξουσίαν τὴν πατρικὴν ἀνατρέχειν, ἧσ ἔξωροσ ἤδη καὶ ἑώλοσ ἡ προθεσμία καὶ μόνῳ τούτῳ ἄκυροσ καὶ προδεδαπανημένη. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 11:1)
  • "ἑώλοσ γὰρ ἡ ψυχρολογία. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 13:4)
  • Οὐκ ἐγὼ ̓λέγον ὅτι θᾶττον τοὺσ γῦπασ ἑώλοσ νεκρὸσ ἐν φανερῷ κείμενοσ ἢ θέαμά τι τῶν παραδόξων Τιμόλαον διαλάθοι, κἂν εἰσ Κόρινθον δέοι ἀπνευστὶ θέοντα ἀπιέναι διὰ τοῦτο; (Lucian, 2:1)
  • παραλαβὼν οὖν αὐτόν τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πολλοὺσ ‐ εἵποντο γὰρ τοῦ παραδόξου ἕνεκα ‐ ἐκέλευον ἀγαγὼν ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον οὗ καταδεδυκότα τὸν δαίμονα ἑωράκειν, σκάπτειν λαβόντασ δικέλλασ καὶ σκαφεῖα, καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐποίησαν, εὑρέθη ὅσον ἐπ’ ὀργυιὰν κατορωρυγμένοσ τισ νεκρὸσ ἑώλοσ μόνα τὰ ὀστᾶ κατὰ σχῆμα συγκείμενοσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 25:12)
  • "ἐσφάχθω μὲν διὰ τοῦ στόματοσ εἰσ τὴν κεφαλήν, ἔστω δὲ ἑώλοσ καθάπερ ὁ πέρδιξ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 843)

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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