Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κατάξιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάξιος κατάξιη κατάξιον

Structure: καταξι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quite or very worthy of

Examples

  • αἰσχύνομαι γὰρ ὀλβίων ἀνδρῶν τέκνα λαβὼν ὑβρίζειν, οὐ κατάξιοσ γεγώσ. (Euripides, episode 2:9)
  • 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)
  • ἐπεὶ δέδρακασ οὔτ’ ἐμοῦ καταξίωσ οὔθ’ ὧν πέφυκασ αὐτὸσ οὔτε σῆσ χθονόσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 4:6)
  • ὅσ σε δὴ αἵματι φύρσε κατάξια, θηρσὶ δὲ βορρὰν καὶ πτανοῖσ ἐπὶ γᾷ εἰάσε νῦν ὁσίωσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 3, chapter 143)
  • Ὁ μὲν οὖν Λιβυκὸσ πόλεμοσ εἰσ τοιαύτην ἀγαγὼν περίστασιν Καρχηδονίουσ τοιοῦτον ἔσχε τὸ τέλοσ ὥστε μὴ μόνον κυριεῦσαι πάλιν τῆσ Λιβύησ τοὺσ Καρχηδονίουσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ αἰτίουσ τῆσ ἀποστάσεωσ τιμωρήσασθαι καταξίωσ· (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 88 5:1)

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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