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ἡλιομανής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡλιομανής ἡλιομανές

Structure: ἡλιομανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mai/nomai

Sense

  1. sun-mad, mad for love of the sun

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἀνθηρῶν λειμώνων φύλλων <τ’> ἐν κόλποισ ναίω, ἡνίκ’ ἂν ὁ θεσπέσιοσ ὀξὺ μέλοσ ἀχέτασ θάλπεσι μεσημβρινοῖσ ἡλιομανὴσ βοᾷ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, antistrophe 13)

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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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