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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

  • καίτοι πρῴην καὶ ἐσ Αἴγιναν ἐπὶ τὴν τῆσ Ἐνοδίασ τελετὴν οἶσθα ἐν ἡλίκῳ σκαφιδίῳ πάντεσ ἅμα οἱ φίλοι τεττάρων ἕκαστοσ ὀβολῶν διεπλεύσαμεν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἐδυσχέραινεσ ἡμᾶσ συμπλέοντασ, νῦν δὲ ἀγανακτεῖσ, εἰ συνεμβησόμεθά σοι, καὶ τὴν ἀποβάθραν προεισελθὼν ἀφαιρεῖσ; (Lucian, 27:9)
  • εἰ δ’ οἱο͂́ν ἐστι φανταζόμενοσ οὐκ ἀπαξιοῖσ σεαυτόν, σκέψαι ἡλίκῳ πράγματι ἐπιχειρεῖσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 12:1)

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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