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ἡμίφλεκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίφλεκτος ἡμίφλεκτον

Structure: ἡμιφλεκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fle/gw

Sense

  1. half-burnt

Examples

  • "οὐκ ἀπ’ ἐλπίδοσ μὴ ἀναπηδήσασθαι αὐτὸν καὶ ἡμίφλεκτον, εἰ μή, ὅπερ φασί, μηχανήσεται βαθεῖαν γενέσθαι καὶ ἐν βόθρῳ τὴν πυράν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:78)
  • Εὖ λέγεισ, ὅτι σου τὰ ἐγκαύματα ἰασάμην, ὅτε πρῴην ἀνῆλθεσ ἡμίφλεκτοσ ὑπ̓ ἀμφοῖν διεφθαρμένοσ τὸ σῶμα, καὶ τοῦ χιτῶνοσ καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο τοῦ πυρόσ· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:1)
  • ἡ δὲ ἡμίφλεκτοσ ἀφεῖσα τὸ παιδίον ἐκ τῆσ ἀγκάλησ μόλισ διεπήδησε τὴν φλόγα, καὶ ἡ παῖσ σὺν αὐτῇ, παρὰ μικρὸν ἐλθοῦσα κἀκείνη ἀποθανεῖν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 60:9)
  • ὡσ δὲ τὸ πῦρ ἐξέλαμψεν, ἀλλαχόθεν ἄλλοσ προσφερόμενοι καὶ δαλοὺσ ἀνασπῶντεσ ἡμιφλέκτουσ διέθεον ἐπὶ τάσ οἰκίασ τῶν ἀνῃρηκότων αὐτὸν ὡσ ἐμπρήσοντεσ. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 20 4:2)
  • νῦν δὲ χάριν μὲν ἔφαν τᾷ Κύπριδι πρᾶτον ὀφείλειν, καὶ μετὰ τὰν Κύπριν τύ με δευτέρα ἐκ πυρὸσ εἵλευ ὦ γύναι ἐσκαλέσασα τεὸν ποτὶ τοῦτο μέλαθρον αὔτωσ ἡμίφλεκτον· (Theocritus, Idylls, 93)

Synonyms

  1. half-burnt

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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