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ἐχυρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐχυρός ἐχυρή ἐχυρόν

Structure: ἐχυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/xw

Sense

  1. strong, secure, in safety
  2. trustworthy

Examples

  • "πῶσ γὰρ βιωσόμεθα, μὴ λέγοντεσ ἄνθρωπον ἀγαθὸν μηδ’ ἄνθρωπον στρατηγὸν ἀλλ’ ἄνθρωπον ἄνθρωπον χωρὶσ καὶ ἀγαθὸν ἀγαθὸν καὶ στρατηγὸν στρατηγόν, μηδ’ ἱππεῖσ μυρίουσ μηδὲ πόλιν ἐχυράν, ἀλλ’ ἱππεῖσ ἱππεῖσ, καὶ μυρίουσ μυρίουσ, καὶ τἄλλα δμοίωσ; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 22 1:1)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐπὶ τοῖσ ὄρεσιν ἄγραυλον καὶ κακόπαθον τὸν βίον εἶχεν, ἐπεὶ δὲ πλεῖον ἤδη καὶ ἀξιόμαχον ἐδόκει γεγονέναι, πόλιν ἐχυρὰν καταλαμβάνεται, ὅθεν ὁρμώμενον ἐληίζετο πᾶσαν τὴν κύκλῳ χώραν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 17 2:2)
  • ὡσ δ’ οὐδεὶσ ἐξῄει μαχησόμενοσ ἄπορον ὁρῶν χρῆμα ἐκ τειχομαχίασ αὐτοὺσ ἑλεῖν ἐχυρὰν σφόδρα ἔχοντασ πόλιν, τῆσ γῆσ αὐτῶν πολλὴν καταδραμὼν εἰσ τὴν Σαβίνων ἐνέβαλε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 35 8:1)
  • οὐδὲν δὲ πρὸσ ἐχυρὰν πόλιν ἐξ ἐφόδου δυνάμενοσ, οὐδὲ μηχανήμασιν ἔχων χρῆσθαι διὰ τὸ ὕψοσ, ᾕρει τὰσ ἄλλασ ἐπιθέων, ἐρημοτέρασ ἀνδρῶν ὑπὸ τῆσ ἐσ τὸ Δελμίνιον συνόδου γενομένασ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 5:6)
  • " Οὕτωσ καὶ ἐχυρὰν πόλιν οἱ οἰκοῦντεσ καταγελῶσι τῶν πολιορκούντων· (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 24:6)

Synonyms

  1. strong

  2. trustworthy

Related

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

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