Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἰσοδρόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσοδρόμος ἰσοδρόμον

Structure: ἰσοδρομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. running equally, of equal length

Examples

  • σώματα δὲ αὐτῶν ἑκάστων ποιήσασ ὁ θεὸσ ἔθηκεν εἰσ τὰσ περιφορὰσ ἃσ ἡ θατέρου περίοδοσ ᾔειν, ἑπτὰ οὔσασ ὄντα ἑπτά, σελήνην μὲν εἰσ τὸν περὶ γῆν πρῶτον, ἥλιον δὲ εἰσ τὸν δεύτερον ὑπὲρ γῆσ, ἑωσφόρον δὲ καὶ τὸν ἱερὸν Ἑρμοῦ λεγόμενον εἰσ τὸν τάχει μὲν ἰσόδρομον ἡλίῳ κύκλον ἰόντασ, τὴν δὲ ἐναντίαν εἰληχότασ αὐτῷ δύναμιν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 128:3)
  • πολλάκι ^ γὰρ νάεσσιν ἰσόδρομον ἄνυσε μᾶκοσ, ὄρνισ ὅπωσ δολιχὰν ἐκπονέουσα τρίβον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2122)

Synonyms

  1. running equally

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

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