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φαιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαιός φαιή φαιόν

Structure: φαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. dusky, dun, gray

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

  • τότε δ’ οὖν ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ Μίλωνοσ δίκην ἐκ τοῦ φορείου προελθών καὶ θεασάμενοσ τὸν Πομπήϊον ἄνω καθεζόμενον ὥσπερ ἐν στρατοπέδῳ, καὶ κύκλῳ τὰ ὅπλα περιλάμποντα τὴν ἀγοράν, συνεχύθη καὶ μόλισ ἐνήρξατο τοῦ λόγου, κραδαινόμενοσ τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὴν φωνὴν ἐνισχόμενοσ, αὐτοῦ τοῦ Μίλωνοσ εὐθαρσῶσ καὶ ἀνδρείωσ παρισταμένου τῷ ἀγῶνι καὶ κόμην θρέψαι καὶ μεταβαλεῖν ἐσθῆτα φαιὰν ἀπαξιώσαντοσ· (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 35 4:1)
  • καὶ παρελθὼν ἐπὶ σκηνήν, ὥσπερ οὐ βασιλεύσ, ἀλλ’ ὑποκριτήσ, μεταμφιέννυται χλαμύδα φαιὰν ἀντὶ τῆσ τραγικῆσ ἐκείνησ, καὶ διαλαθὼν ὑπεχώρησεν. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 44 6:3)
  • ἡ δὲ Κρομμυωνία σῦσ, ἣν Φαιὰν προσωνόμαζον, οὐ φαῦλον ἦν θηρίον, ἀλλὰ μάχιμον καὶ χαλεπὸν κρατηθῆναι. (Plutarch, chapter 9 1:1)
  • ἔνιοι δέ φασι τὴν Φαιὰν λῃστρίδα γενέσθαι γυναῖκα φονικὴν καὶ ἀκόλαστον, αὐτόθι κατοικοῦσαν ἐν Κρομμυῶνι, σῦν δὲ ἐπονομασθεῖσαν διὰ τὸ ἦθοσ καὶ τὸν βίον εἶτα ὑπὸ Θησέωσ ἀποθανεῖν. (Plutarch, chapter 9 1:3)
  • τρίτην ἔκτεινεν ἐν Κρομμυῶνι σῦν τὴν καλουμένην Φαιὰν ἀπὸ τῆσ θρεψάσησ γραὸσ αὐτήν· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 1 2:1)

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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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