Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

γῆθεν

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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

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

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