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ἡμιάνθρωπος?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: hēmianthrōpos

Principal Part: ἡμιάνθρωπος

Sense

  1. a half-man

Examples

  • ὁ γάρ τοι γενναιότατος οὗτος Διόνυσος ἡμιάνθρωπος ὤν, οὐδὲ Ἕλλην μητρόθεν ἀλλὰ Συροφοίνικός τινος ἐμπόρου τοῦ Κάδμου θυγατριδοῦς, ἐπείπερ ἠξιώθη τῆς ἀθανασίας, οἱο῀ς μὲν αὐτός ἐστιν οὐ λέγω, οὔτε τὴν μίτραν οὔτε τὴν μέθην οὔτε τὸ βάδισμα: (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a half-man

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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