Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κρυφαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρυφαῖος κρυφαῖη κρυφαῖον

Structure: κρυφαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hidden
  2. secret, clandestine

Examples

  • νόσον κρυφαίαν ἡνίκ’ ἔστενεσ λάθρα; (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 3:21)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τούτοισ μὲν ἔστι παραβαλεῖν τὰ Λεῦκτρα καὶ Τεγύρασ, ἐπιφανεστάτουσ καὶ μεγίστουσ ἀγώνων, κρυφαίαν δὲ σὺν λόχῳ κατωρθωμένην πρᾶξιν οὐκ ἔχομεν τοῦ Μαρκέλλου παραβαλεῖν οἷσ Πελοπίδασ περὶ τὴν ἐκ φυγῆσ κάθοδον καὶ ἀναίρεσιν τῶν ἐν Θήβαισ τυράννων ἔπραξεν, ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο πολὺ πάντων ἐοίκε πρωτεύειν τῶν ὑπὸ σκότῳ καὶ δι’ ἀπάτησ γεγενημένων τὸ ἔργον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, chapter 1 3:1)
  • Ζεὺσ γὰρ κρυφαίαν ἐσ στέγην Ἀτλαντίδοσ εύσατο· (Sophocles, Ichneutae 21:8)

Synonyms

  1. hidden

  2. secret

Related

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

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