Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἰσοστάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσοστάσιος ἰσοστάσιον

Structure: ἰσοστασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: i(/sthmi

Sense

  1. in equipoise with, equivalent to

Examples

  • Ἰδού σοι γυμνόσ, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, ἀληθῶσ εἰμι καὶ ἰσοστάσιοσ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ νεκροῖσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 9:1)
  • "ἰσοστάσιοσ γὰρ ἦν ἡ πορφύρα πρὸσ ἄργυρον ἐξεταζομένη, τοιγαροῦν διὰ τὴν τοιαύτην ἀγωγὴν ἐν τυραννίδι καὶ στάσεσι γενόμενοι αὐτῇ πατρίδι διεφθάρησαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:98)

Synonyms

  1. in equipoise with

Related

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

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