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ἡβός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡβός ἡβή ἡβόν

Structure: ἡβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = h(bw=n, Theocr.

Sense

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅτ’ ἄρ’ ἡβήσαι τε καὶ ἥβησ μέτρον ἵκοιτο, παυρίδιον ζώεσκον ἐπὶ χρόνον, ἄλγε’ ἔχοντεσ ἀφραδίῃσ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 17:4)
  • βόε δ’ ἐνναετήρω ἄρσενε κεκτῆσθαι, τῶν γὰρ σθένοσ οὐκ ἀλαπαδνόν, ἥβησ μέτρον ἔχοντε· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:15)
  • τόν ῥα νέον τέρεν ἄνθοσ ἔχοντ’ ἐρικυδέοσ ἥβησ παῖδ’ ἀταλὰ φρονέοντα φιλομμειδὴσ Ἀφροδίτη ὦρτ’ ἀναρεψαμένη, καί μιν ζαθέοισ ἐνὶ νηοῖσ νηοπόλον νύχιον ποιήσατο, δαίμονα δῖον. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 107:3)
  • εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἔθανεσ πρὸ πόλεωσ, ἥβησ τυχὼν γάμων τε καὶ τῆσ ἰσοθέου τυραννίδοσ, μακάριοσ ἦσθ’ ἄν, εἴ τι τῶνδε μακάριον· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 3:2)
  • ἣ δ’ ἐν δόμοισ ἔμεινεν Ἠλέκτρα πατρόσ, ταύτην ἐπειδὴ θαλερὸσ εἶχ’ ἥβησ χρόνοσ, μνηστῆρεσ ᾔτουν Ἑλλάδοσ πρῶτοι χθονόσ. (Euripides, episode 1:7)

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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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