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ἐχέγγυος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐχέγγυος ἐχέγγυον

Structure: ἐχεγγυ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)ggu/h

Sense

  1. having given or able to give security, trust-worthy, secure, to be relied on, security, sufficiently strong
  2. having received a pledge, secured against danger

Examples

  • ἐν τούτῳ δὲ καὶ ὁ Ῥωμύλοσ ἀντιπαρεσκευάζετο τὰ κράτστα, ὡσ ἀμυνούμενοσ ἄνδρασ τὰ πολέμια ἀλκίμουσ, τοῦ μὲν Παλατίου τὸ τεῖχοσ ὡσ ἀσφαλέστερον εἶναι τοῖσ ἔνδον ὑψηλοτέροισ ἐρύμασιν ἐγείρων, τοὺσ δὲ παρακειμένουσ αὐτῷ λόφουσ τόν τε Αὐεντῖνον καὶ τὸν Καπιτωλῖνον νῦν λεγόμενον ἀποταφρεύων καὶ χαρακώμασι καρτεροῖσ περιλαμβάνων, ἐν οἷσ τὰ ποίμνια καὶ τοὺσ γεωργοὺσ αὐλίζεσθαι τὰσ νύκτασ ἐπέταξεν ἐχεγγύῳ φρουρᾷ καταλαβὼν ἑκάτερον, καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο χωρίον ἀσφάλειαν αὐτοῖσ παρέξειν ἔμελλεν ἀποταφρεύων καὶ περισταυρῶν καὶ διὰ φυλακῆσ ἔχων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 37 1:1)
  • οὐ μέντοι γε ἐκεκύρωτο οὐδέν, ὡσ ἂν ἐχεγγύῳ παραδείγματι χρώμενον ἐπ’ ἀδείασ Ἀρχέλαον εἶναι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 297:1)

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

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