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ἡρωικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡρωικός ἡρωική ἡρωικόν

Structure: ἡρωικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h(/rws

Sense

  1. of or for a hero, heroic
  2. the heroic verse, the hexameter

Examples

  • μέλασ μὲν γὰρ ἦν τὴν χροίαν, ἰσχνόσ, τὴν σάρκα πεπιλημένοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐνῴκει τισ ἡρωικὴ ψυχὴ λεπτῷ σώματι καὶ πολὺ τῆσ ἰδίασ ἀλκῆσ στενοτέρῳ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 62:2)
  • τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ χάριν καὶ βάροσ καὶ φόβον καὶ ὡρ́αν εἶχε, καὶ συνεκέκρατο τῷ νεαρῷ καὶ ἰταμῷ δυσμίμητοσ ἡρωϊκή τισ ἐπιφάνεια καὶ βασιλικὴ σεμνότησ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 2 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. the heroic verse

Related

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

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