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φερέγγυος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φερέγγυος φερέγγυον

Structure: φερεγγυ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)ggu/h

Sense

  1. giving surety, to be depended upon, trusty, sure, capable, sufficient, warrant for, able to answer for

Examples

  • τίσ φερέγγυοσ; (Plutarch, chapter 1 2:3)
  • τίσ Προίτου πυλῶν κλῄθρων λυθέντων προστατεῖν φερέγγυοσ; (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode14)
  • τί γὰρ κελεύεισ ὧν ἐγὼ φερέγγυοσ; (Sophocles, episode 2:25)
  • οὔτε γὰρ τῆσ θαλάσσησ ἐστὶ λιμὴν τοσοῦτοσ οὐδαμόθι, ὡσ ἐγὼ εἰκάζω, ὅστισ ἐγειρομένου χειμῶνοσ δεξάμενόσ σευ τοῦτο τὸ ναυτικὸν φερέγγυοσ ἔσται διασῶσαι τὰσ νέασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 49 3:1)
  • "αὐτὸσ μὲν ὑμῖν οὐ φερέγγυόσ εἰμι δύναμιν παρασχεῖν τοσαύτην ὥστε κατάγειν ἀεκόντων τῶν τὴν πόλιν ἐχόντων Ναξίων· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 30 5:1)

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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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