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ἡλίκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡλίκος ἡλίκη ἡλίκον

Structure: ἡλικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from h(=lic

Sense

  1. as big as
  2. as old as
  3. extraordinarily great

Examples

  • τὸ δ’ ἐμὸν ἦθοσ οἶσθα δήπουθεν ἡλίκαισ ῥοπαῖσ φέρεται πρὸσ εὔνοιαν ἀνθρώπων καὶ πίστιν· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 16 2:1)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐμὸν ἦθοσ οἶσθα δήπουθεν ἡλίκαισ ῥοπαῖσ φέρεται πρὸσ εὔνοιαν ἀνθρώπων καὶ πίστιν· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 16 1:1)
  • τρίτον ἤδη σκεψώμεθα, τὸ βέλτιστον ἀνθρώπων καὶ θεοφιλέστατον γένοσ ἐν ἡλίκαισ εἰσὶν ἡδοναῖσ, καθαραῖσ περὶ θεοῦ δόξαισ συνόντεσ, ὡσ πάντων μὲν ἡγεμὼν ἀγαθῶν πάντων δὲ πατὴρ καλῶν ἐκεῖνόσ ἐστι, καὶ φαῦλον οὐδὲν αὐτῷ ποιεῖν θέμισ ὥσπερ οὐδὲ πάσχειν. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 222)

Synonyms

  1. as big as

  2. as old as

  3. extraordinarily great

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

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