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λάθριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λάθριος λάθριον

Structure: λαθρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: later form of laqrai=os, Theocr.

Sense

  1. treacherously

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἴθ’ ἄγε δ πόδα βάσιν τεν ἀπαπαπαῖ ὢ ὤ, σέ τοι ἔπιθι κλωπ ὑπόνομα κ διανύτων ό πατρικὰν γῆρυν πῶσ πᾷ τὰ λάθρια νύχια κλέμματα ποσσὶ εἴ πωσ, ἂν τύχω, πο πατρί τ’ ἐλεύθερον βμετ ξυνάμα θεὸσ ὁ φίλοσ ἀνέτω πόνουσ, προφήνασ ἀρίζηλα χρυσοῦ παραδείγματα. (Sophocles, Ichneutae 5:1)
  • ἦνθέ γε μὰν ἁδεῖα καὶ ἁ Κύπρισ γελάοισα, λάθρια μὲν γελάοισα, βαρὺν δ’ ἀνὰ θυμὸν ἔχοισα, κεἶπε· (Theocritus, Idylls, 65)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἔτι λάθρια παίζω· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 2312)

Synonyms

  1. treacherously

Related

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

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