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ἰσοδρόμος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: isodromos

Principal Part: ἰσοδρόμος ἰσοδρόμον

Structure: ἰσοδρομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. running equally, of equal length

Examples

  • Πλάτων καὶ οἱ μαθηματικοὶ ἰσοδρόμους εἶναι τὸν ἥλιον τὸν ἑωσφόρον τὸν στίλβοντα. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 2, chapter 16 4:1)
  • 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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