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φαεσίμβροτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαεσίμβροτος

Structure: φαεσιμβροτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fa/os, bro/tos, with m inserted

Sense

  1. bringing light to mortals

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

  • ὦ φίλοι, οὐ γάρ τ’ ἴδμεν, ὅπῃ ζόφοσ οὐδ’ ὅπῃ ἠώσ, οὐδ’ ὅπῃ ἠέλιοσ φαεσίμβροτοσ εἶσ’ ὑπὸ γαῖαν, οὐδ’ ὅπῃ ἀννεῖται· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 18:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ δεκάτη ἐφάνη φαεσίμβροτοσ ἠώσ, καὶ τότ’ ἄρ’ ἐξέφερον θρασὺν Ἕκτορα δάκρυ χέοντεσ, ἐν δὲ πυρῇ ὑπάτῃ νεκρὸν θέσαν, ἐν δ’ ἔβαλον πῦρ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 75:3)
  • "ὦ φίλοι, οὐ γάρ τ’ ἴδμεν ὅπη ζόφοσ, οὐδ’ ὅπη ἠώσ, οὐδ’ ὅπη ἠέλιοσ φαεσίμβροτοσ εἶσ’ ὑπὸ γαῖαν, οὐδ’ ὅπη ἀννεῖται· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 1 42:3)
  • " καὶ πάλιν "ὦ φίλοι, οὐ γάρ τ’ ἴδμεν, ὅπῃ ζόφοσ, οὐδ’ ὅπῃ ἠώσ, οὐδ’ ὅπῃ ἠέλιοσ φαεσίμβροτοσ εἶσ’ ὑπὸ "γαῖαν, οὐδ’ ὅπῃ ἀννεῖται. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 56:8)
  • ὅτι δ’ οὕτω λέγει τὸ νότιον μέροσ καὶ ἐν τοῖσδε φανερόν εἴτ’ ἐπὶ δεξί’ ἰώσι, πρὸσ ἠῶ τ’ ἠέλιόν τε, εἴτ’ ἐπ’ ἀριστερὰ τοί γε, ποτὶ ζόφον ἠερόεντα καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐν τοῖσδε ὦ φίλοι, οὐ γάρ τ’ ἴδμεν, ὅπη ζόφοσ, οὐδ’ ὅπη ἠώσ, οὐδ’ ὅπη ἠέλιοσ φαεσίμβροτοσ εἶσ’ ὑπὸ γαῖαν, οὐδ’ ὅπη ἀννεῖται. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 17:10)

Synonyms

  1. bringing light to mortals

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

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