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ἰσότιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσότιμος ἰσότιμον

Structure: ἰσοτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: timh/

Sense

  1. held in equal honour, having the same privileges

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ τοίνυν τὸ μὲν ἕτερον τῆσ γνώμησ μέροσ ἀμφοτέροισ τοῖσ ὑπάτοισ συνδοκεῖ, τὸ δ’ ἕτερον ἀντιλέγεται πρὸσ θατέρου, ἰσότιμοι δ’ ἀμφότεροι, καὶ οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε βιάσασθαι θατέρῳ τὸν ἕτερον, ὃ μὲν δίδοται δοται παρ’ ἀμφοτέρων, ἤδη λάβωμεν, ὑπὲρ οὗ δ’ ἀμφισβητοῦσιν, ἀναβαλώμεθα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 72 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. held in equal honour

Related

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

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