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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 stale, out of date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

  • ἰδοὺ γέ τοι ὑπ’ ἀσχολίασ τοσαύτασ ἑώλουσ δίκασ φυλάττομεν ἀποκειμένασ ὑπ’ εὐρῶτοσ ἤδη καὶ ἀραχνίων διεφθαρμένασ, καὶ μάλιστα ὁπόσαι ταῖσ ἐπιστήμαισ καὶ τέχναισ πρὸσ ἀνθρώπουσ τινὰσ συνεστᾶσιν, πάνυ παλαιὰσ ἐνίασ αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 3:2)
  • "τὰ μὲν γὰρ σμικρὰ ταῦτα τί χρὴ καὶ λέγειν ὅσα ἐπεδείκνυτο, ἔρωτασ ἐπιπέμπων καὶ δαίμονασ ἀνάγων καὶ νεκροὺσ ἑώλουσ ἀνακαλῶν καὶ τὴν Ἑκάτην αὐτὴν ἐναργῆ παριστὰσ καὶ τὴν Σελήνην καθαιρῶν; (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 12:7)
  • τοὺσ δὲ Ῥοδίουσ ἐκάλει λευκοὺσ Κυρηναίουσ καὶ μνηστήρων πόλιν, τὴν δ’ Ἡράκλειαν Ἀνδροκόρινθον καὶ τὸ Βυζάντιον μασχάλην τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ, τοὺσ δὲ Λευκαδίουσ ἑώλουσ Κορινθίουσ, τοὺσ δ’ Ἀμβρακιώτασ Μεμβρακιώτασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 444)
  • εἰσ δὲ τὰσ ἑώλουσ καὶ πολυπατήτουσ κύκλῳ περιιὼν εἰσελαύνει ῥαψῳδίασ τὸν λόγον. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 5:5)
  • εἰσ δὲ τὰσ ἑώλουσ καὶ πολυπατήτουσ κύκλῳ περιιὼν εἰσελαύνει ῥαψῳδίασ τὸν λόγον· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 16:1)

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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