Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἥσσων

; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἥσσων

Etym.: comp. of kako/s or mikro/s

Sense

  1. less, weaker, less brave, not so good, "second
  2. the weaker party, of the vanquished, the worse
  3. yielding, a slave to, yielding to, unable to resist
  4. less, not the less, just as much

Examples

  • τίσ ταῦτα ἐβούλευσεν ἐπὶ Τύρον̣ μὴ ἥσσων ἐστὶν ἢ οὐκ ἰσχύει̣ οἱ ἔμποροι αὐτῆσ ἔνδοξοι, ἄρχοντεσ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 23:8)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἠβούλετο τοῦ πεπραγμένου ἥσσων γίνεσθαι τῷ τῆσ ἀδείασ· (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 12:2)
  • Διόνυσοσ ἥσσων οὐδενὸσ θεῶν ἔφυ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 10:2)
  • σὺ δ’ ἦσθ’ ἄρ’ ἥσσων ἢ ’δόκεισ εἶναι φίλοσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 5:17)
  • ὡσ ἐσ τὸ λῆμα παντὸσ ἦν ἥσσων ἀνήρ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 5:37)

Synonyms

  1. less

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

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