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κατάξιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάξιος κατάξιη κατάξιον

Structure: καταξι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quite or very worthy of

Examples

  • ὦ μηδὲν ὑγιὲσ μηδ’ ἐλεύθερον φρονῶν, οἷ’ αὖ μ’ ὑπῆλθεσ, ὥσ μ’ ἐθηράσω, λαβὼν πρόβλημα σαυτοῦ παῖδα τόνδ’ ἀγνῶτ’ ἐμοί, ἀνάξιον μὲν σοῦ, κατάξιον δ’ ἐμοῦ, ὃσ οὐδὲν ᾔδει πλὴν τὸ προσταχθὲν ποεῖν, δῆλοσ δὲ καὶ νῦν ἐστιν ἀλγεινῶσ φέρων οἷσ τ’ αὐτὸσ ἐξήμαρτεν οἷσ τ’ ἐγὼ ’παθον. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. quite or very worthy of

Related

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

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