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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

  • ὅστισ μέντοι παῖσ τε ὢν καὶ παιδίσκοσ καὶ ἡβῶν πάντα τὰ καλὰ ποιῶν διετέλεσε, χαλεπὸν εἶναι τοιοῦτον ἄνδρα ἀποκτιννύναι· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 38:5)
  • ἀνδρῶν δ’ οὔ κέν τισ ζωὸσ βροτόσ, οὐδὲ μάλ’ ἡβῶν, ῥεῖα μετοχλίσσειεν, ἐπεὶ μέγα σῆμα τέτυκται ἐν λέχει ἀσκητῷ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 23 24:4)
  • οὐδέ κέ μιν ῥέα χείρεσσ’ ἀμφοτέρῃσ ἔχοι ἀνὴρ οὐδὲ μάλ’ ἡβῶν, οἱοῖ νῦν βροτοί εἰσ’· (Homer, Iliad, Book 12 29:2)
  • οὐ γάρ κε τλαίη βροτὸσ ἐλθέμεν, οὐδὲ μάλ’ ἡβῶν, ἐσ στρατόν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 53:5)
  • εἰ δ’ ἐγὼ σθένοσ ἥβων δόρυ τ’ ἔπαλλον ἐν αἰχμᾷ, Καδμείων τε σύνηβοι, τέκεσιν ἂν προπαρέσταν ἀλκᾷ· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, ephymnion 31)

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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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