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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 stale, out of date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

  • καὶ νεκρῶν σωμάτων καὶ ἑώλων προθέμενοσ τραπέζασ ὄψα καὶ τρυφὰσ καὶ προσέτι εἰπεῖν τὰ μικρὸν ἔμπροσθεν βρυχώμενα μέρη καὶ φθεγγόμενα καὶ κινούμενα καὶ βλέποντα· (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 1 2:1)
  • καὶ παρελθὼν ἐπὶ πολὺ μὲν ἐζήτει τὸν Ἀντίφιλον ἄδηλον ὑπὸ τῶν κακῶν γεγενημένον, καὶ περιιὼν ἀνεσκοπεῖτο καθ’ ἕκαστον τῶν δεδεμένων, ὥσπερ εἰώθασιν οἱ τοὺσ οἰκείουσ νεκρούσ, ἤδη ἑώλων ὄντων, ἀναζητοῦντεσ ἐν ταῖσ παρατάξεσιν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 29:4)
  • ἢ ταυτὶ μὲν εἰσ τὴν τῶν ἑώλων καὶ ψυχρῶν ἀγορὰν βούλει παρῶμεν, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ὡσ ἔνι μάλιστα πραγματικοῖσ καὶ μετὰ σπουδῆσ λεγομένοισ ποιησώμεθα τοῦ λόγου τὸν ἐξετασμόν; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 3 4:3)
  • "ἀμαυρόν ἐστι καὶ κνισῶδεσ, ὥσπερ ἑώλων ὧν τισ ἔφαγεν ἢ ἔπιε τιθεμένου καὶ ταμιεύοντοσ ἐπινοίασ ἐν ἑαυτῷ καὶ χρωμένου δηλονότι ταύταισ, προσφάτων μὴ παρόντων. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 4 2:7)
  • εἷσ δέ τισ ἀνήρ ἐπιεικὴσ, Μέτων ὄνομα, τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐκείνησ ἐν ᾗ τὸ δόγμα κυροῦν ἔμελλον ἐνστάσησ καὶ τοῦ δήμου καθεζομένου, λαβὼν στέφανον τῶν ἑώλων καὶ λαμπάδιον, ὥσπερ οἱ μεθύοντεσ, αὐλητρίδοσ ὑφηγουμένησ αὐτῷ πρὸσ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἐκώμαζεν. (Plutarch, chapter 13 3:1)

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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