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ἧλιξ

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἧλιξ ἧλικος

Structure: ἡλικ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. of the same age, of the same age with
  2. a fellow, comrade

Declension

Third 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

  • ὅθεν λέγεται, "ἥλιξ ἥλικα τέρπει" καὶκακὸσ κακῷ <δὲ> συντέτηκεν ἡδονῇ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 86:3)
  • καὶ ἐπεὶ τὸ κατὰ φύσιν ἡδύ, τὰ συγγενῆ δὲ κατὰ φύσιν ἀλλήλοισ ἐστίν, πάντα τὰ συγγενῆ καὶ ὅμοια ἡδέα ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολύ, οἱο͂ν ἄνθρωποσ ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ ἵπποσ ἵππῳ καὶ νέοσ νέῳ, ὅθεν καὶ αἱ παροιμίαι εἴρηνται, ὡσ "ἧλιξ ἥλικα τέρπει" , καὶ "ὡσ αἰεὶ τὸν ὁμοῖον" , καὶ "ἔγνω δὲ θὴρ θῆρα" , "καὶ γὰρ κολοιὸσ παρὰ κολοιόν" , καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τοιαῦτα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 25:1)
  • ἧλιξ γὰρ ἥλικα, καὶ οἱ συνήθεισ ἑταῖροι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 125:5)
  • τινα σοφίασ ηὑρηκὼσ θησαυρόν, ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ ἐνθουσιᾷ τε καὶ πάντα κινεῖ λόγον ἅσμενοσ, τοτὲ μὲν ἐπὶ θάτερα κυκλῶν καὶ συμφύρων εἰσ ἕν, τοτὲ δὲ πάλιν ἀνειλίττων καὶ διαμερίζων, εἰσ ἀπορίαν αὑτὸν μὲν πρῶτον καὶ μάλιστα καταβάλλων, δεύτερον δ’ ἀεὶ τὸν ἐχόμενον, ἄντε νεώτεροσ ἄντε πρεσβύτεροσ ἄντε ἧλιξ ὢν τυγχάνῃ, φειδόμενοσ οὔτε πατρὸσ οὔτε μητρὸσ οὔτε ἄλλου τῶν ἀκουόντων οὐδενόσ, ὀλίγου δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων, οὐ μόνον τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐπεὶ βαρβάρων γε οὐδενὸσ ἂν φείσαιτο, εἴπερ μόνον ἑρμηνέα ποθὲν ἔχοι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 30:1)
  • ἧλιξ δὲ ἥλικα καὶ τὸν ἄπαιδα προέχοντα ἡλικίᾳ ἑαυτοῦ ἐὰν τύπτῃ, γέρων τε γέροντα καὶ ἐὰν νέοσ νέον, ἀμυνέσθω κατὰ φύσιν ἄνευ βέλουσ ψιλαῖσ ταῖσ χερσίν· (Plato, Laws, book 9 173:3)

Synonyms

  1. of the same age

  2. a fellow

Related

Similar forms

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

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