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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

  • ἀλλ’ ὦ κρατύνων Οἰδίπουσ χώρασ ἐμῆσ, ὁρᾷσ μὲν ἡμᾶσ ἡλίκοι προσήμεθα βωμοῖσι τοῖσ σοῖσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:1)
  • οὔτοι, ὦ Σώκρατέσ τε καὶ Νικία καὶ Λάχησ, οἱ ἡλίκοι ἐγὼ ἔτι γιγνώσκομεν τοὺσ νεωτέρουσ, ἅτε κατ’ οἰκίαν τὰ πολλὰ διατρίβοντεσ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἡλικίασ· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 14:1)

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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