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ἡμιόλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιόλιος ἡμιόλιᾱ ἡμιόλιον

Structure: ἡμιολι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o(/los

Sense

  1. containing one and a half, half as much again, half as large again as, half as much again as
  2. a ship with one and a half banks of oars

Examples

  • "περὶ Βερενίκην τῆσ Λιβύησ Λήθων ποτάμιον, ἐν ᾧ γίνεται ἰχθὺσ λάβραξ καὶ χρύσοφρυσ καὶ ἐγχέλεων πλῆθοσ καὶ τῶν καλουμένων βασιλικῶν, αἳ τῶν τε ἐκ Μακεδονίασ καὶ τῆσ Κωπαίδοσ λίμνησ τὸ μέγεθόσ εἰσιν ἡμιόλιαι, πᾶν τε τὸ ῥεῖθρον αὐτοῦ ἰχθύων ποικίλων ἐστὶ πλῆρεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 84 1:1)
  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δέ, ἐπειδὴ παρεσκευάσθησαν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ Ὑδάσπου ταῖσ ὄχθαισ πολλαὶ μὲν τριακόντοροι καὶ ἡμιόλιαι, πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἱππαγωγὰ πλοῖα καὶ ἄλλα ὅσα ἐσ παρακομιδὴν στρατιᾶσ ποταμῷ εὔπορα, ἔγνω καταπλεῖν πρότερον μέν γε ἐν τῷ Ἰνδῷ ποταμῷ κροκοδείλουσκατὰ τὸν Ὑδάσπην ὡσ ἐπὶ τὴν μεγάλην θάλασσαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 1 1:1)
  • Λεοννάτον μὲν δὴ δοὺσ αὐτῷ τῶν τε ἱππέων ἐσ χιλίουσ καὶ τῶν ὁπλιτῶν τε καὶ ψιλῶν ἐσ ὀκτακισχιλίουσ κατὰ τὴν νῆσον τὰ Πάταλα ἐκπέμπει ἀντιπαράγειν τῷ στόλῳ, αὐτὸσ δὲ τὰσ μάλιστα τῶν νεῶν ταχυναυτούσασ ἀναλαβὼν ὅσαι τε ἡμιόλιαι καὶ τὰσ τριακοντόρουσ πάσασ καὶ τῶν κερκούρων ἔστιν οὓσ ἔπλει κατὰ τὸν ποταμὸν τὸν ἐν δεξιᾷ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 18 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a ship with one and a half banks of oars

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

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