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ἡμιμανής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: hēmimanēs

Principal Part: ἡμιμανής ἡμιμανές

Structure: ἡμιμανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. half-mad

Examples

  • γυναικεῖος τὴν φύσιν, ἡμιμανής, ἀκράτου ἑώθεν ἀποπνέων ὁ δὲ καὶ ὅλην φατρίαν ἐσεποίησεν ἡμῖν καὶ τὸν χορὸν ἐπαγόμενος πάρεστι καὶ θεοὺς ἀπέφηνε τὸν Πᾶνα καὶ τὸν Σιληνὸν καὶ Σατύρους, ἀγροίκους τινὰς καὶ αἰπόλους τοὺς πολλούς, σκιρτητικοὺς ἀνθρώπους καὶ τὰς μορφὰς ἀλλοκότους: (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 4:4)

Synonyms

  1. half-mad

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

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