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γῆθεν?

; Transliteration: gēthen

Principal Part: γῆθεν

Sense

  1. out of or from the earth

Examples

  • "τὸ γὰρ ὀξυδερκὲς αὐτὸς ἤδη γῆθεν ἥκεις ἔχων. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 14:3)
  • ἦ καί σφ Ἀθάνα γῆθεν ἐξανείλετο· (Euripides, Ion, episode33)
  • στένει πόλισμα γῆθεν, ὡς κυκλουμένων. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode3)
  • αἰτοῦ δὲ προσπίτνουσα γῆθεν εὐμενῆ ἡμῖν ἀρωγὸν αὐτὸν εἰς ἐχθροὺς μολεῖν, καὶ παῖδ Ὀρέστην ἐξ ὑπερτέρας χερὸς ἐχθροῖσιν αὐτοῦ ζῶντ ἐπεμβῆναι ποδί, ὅπως τὸ λοιπὸν αὐτὸν ἀφνεωτέραις χερσὶν στέφωμεν ἢ τανῦν δωρούμεθα. (Sophocles, episode 7:11)
  • ὁποῖα νίκης μὴ κακῆς ἐπίσκοπα, καὶ ταῦτα γῆθεν ἔκ τε ποντίας δρόσου ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τε: (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode14)

Synonyms

  1. out of or from the earth

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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