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ἡμιάνθρωπος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

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, οἱο͂σ μὲν αὐτόσ ἐστιν οὐ λέγω, οὔτε τὴν μίτραν οὔτε τὴν μέθην οὔτε τὸ βάδισμα· (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 4:2)

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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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