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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

  • ὅν γε Σελάνα βουκολέοντα φίλασεν, ἀπ’ Οὐλύμπω δὲ μολοῖσα λάθριον ἀν νάποσ ἦλθε καὶ εἰσ ἕνα παιδὶ κάθευδε. (Theocritus, Idylls, 25)
  • λάθριον ἑρπηστὴν σκολιὸν πόδα, κισσέ, χορεύσασ, ἄγχεισ τὴν Βρομίου βοτρυόπαιδα χάριν δεσμεῖσ δ’ οὐχ ἡμᾶσ, ὀλέκεισ δὲ σέ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 331)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐλέγχειν λάθριον υἱᾶ Ῥέησ ἤθελον ἡμετέρησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6453)
  • ἐκ γὰρ ἐκείνησ λάθριον εἶχε κύλιξ πῦρ γλυκερῶν στομάτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 281 1:2)

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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