Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλέγγυος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλέγγυος φιλέγγυον

Structure: φιλεγγυ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)ggu/h

Sense

  1. readily giving security or bail

Examples

  • ζημίαν φιλεγγύων σκοπῶν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 10 6:5)
  • φασὶ δέ τινα τῶν πάνυ γνωριζόμενον ὡσ εἰή φιλέγγυοσ καὶ σκωπτόμενον ἐπὶ τούτῳ περιτυχεῖν κυνηγέταισ λύκον ἐν τοῖσ δικτύοισ ἔχουσιν· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 18:7)
  • ἀφεθέντα δὲ τὸν λύκον ἵππων ἀγέλην ἀπελάσαντα ἀκαυτηριάστων ἱκανὴν προσαγαγεῖν πρὸσ τὸν τοῦ φιλεγγύου σταθμόν· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 18:9)

Synonyms

  1. readily giving security or bail

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

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