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ἡμίθεος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίθεος

Sense

  1. a half-god, demigod

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Πολυδεύκησ οὐδὲ θεὸσ ἠθέλησε μόνοσ ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἡμίθεοσ σὺν τἀδελφῷ γενέσθαι καὶ τῆσ θνητῆσ μερίδοσ μετασχεῖν ἐπὶ τῷ μεταδοῦναι τῆσ ἀθανασίασ ἐκείνῳ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 12 3:1)
  • ἡμίθεοσ δ’ ὁ φιλῶν ἀθάνατοσ δ’ ὁ γαμῶν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 945)

Related

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

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