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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

  • ἔργῳ γὰρ οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἦν οὐδετέρῳ βιάσασθαι τὸν ἕτερον τῆσ ἰσοτίμου ἀρχῆσ ἀξιώσει κρατυνόμενον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 58 4:2)
  • αἰδώσ τ’ ἀλλήλων καὶ κώλυσισ τοῦ καθ’ ἡδονὴν ζῆν φιλοτιμία τε πρὸσ ἀρετῆσ δόκησιν ἐκ ταύτησ γένοιτ’ ἂν ἑκάστῳ τῆσ ἰσοτίμου δυναστείασ μάλιστα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 73 6:3)

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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