Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λέως

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέως

Etym.: ionic adv. = li/an

Sense

  1. entirely, wholly, at all

Examples

  • τὸ γὰρ λέωσ ἐστὶ τελέωσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 485)
  • ὁ γάρ τοι πολὺσ οὗτοσ λεώσ, αὐτοὶ μὲν ἀγνοοῦσι τὰ βελτίω, βάναυσοι ὄντεσ οἱ πολλοὶ αὐτῶν, ὅντινα δ̓ ἂν οἱ προὔχοντεσ ἐπαινέσωσι, πιστεύουσι μὴ ἂν ἀλόγωσ ἐπαινεθῆναι τοῦτον· (Lucian, Harmonides 5:7)
  • πλὴν ἀλλ’ ὅ γε λεὼσ ὁ πολὺσ τεθήπασιν αὐτούσ, καὶ μάλιστα ὁπόσουσ μηδὲν τῶν ἀναγκαιοτέρων ἀσχολεῖ, καὶ παρεστᾶσι πρὸσ τὸ θράσοσ καὶ τὴν βοὴν κεκηλημένοι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 11:11)
  • οὐδὲν τοιοῦτον, ὦ πάτερ, ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνοι μέν, ὁ πολὺσ λεώσ, ἐπῄνουν καὶ διὰ τιμῆσ ἦγον, αἰδούμενοι καὶ θαυμάζοντέσ με καὶ μονονουχὶ προσκυνοῦντεσ, εἰ καὶ μὴ σφόδρα ξυνίεσαν ὧν λέγοιμι. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 3:5)
  • ὁ δὲ λεὼσ ἅπασ ἠκολούθει, πάντεσ ἔνθεοι καὶ μεμηνότεσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐλπίδων. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 14:7)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀγχιτέρμων γαῖά μοι, Σκύθησ λεώσ, μέλλοντι νόστον τὸν πρὸσ Ἴλιον περᾶν ξυνῆψε πόλεμον· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambics 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. entirely

Related

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

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