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μακραίων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: μακραίων μακραίωνος

Structure: μακραιων (Stem)

Etym.: makro/s

Sense

  1. lasting long
  2. long-lived, aged, the immortals

Declension

Third 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

  • "ὃ μέντοι μόνον ἀκήκοα τῶν Ἐπικουρείων λεγόντων πρὸσ τοὺσ εἰσαγομένουσ ὑπ’ Ἐμπεδοκλέουσ δαίμονασ, ὡσ οὐ δυνατὸν εἶναι φαύλουσ καὶ ἁμαρτητικοὺσ ὄντασ μακαρίουσ καὶ μακραίωνασ εἶναι, πολλὴν τυφλότητα τῆσ κακίασ ἐχούσησ καὶ τὸ περιπτωτικὸν τοῖσ ἀναιρετικοῖσ, εὐήθέσ ἐστιν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 20 1:3)
  • οὐδὲ Αἰσχύλου, ὅταν φῇ ἡ Θέτισ τὸν Ἀπόλλω ἐν τοῖσ αὑτῆσ γάμοισ ᾄδοντα ἐνδατεῖσθαι τὰσ ἑὰσ εὐπαιδίασ ‐ νόσων τ’ ἀπείρουσ καὶ μακραίωνασ βίουσ,ξύμπαντά τ’ εἰπὼν θεοφιλεῖσ ἐμὰσ τύχασπαιᾶν’ ἐπηυφήμησεν, εὐθυμῶν ἐμέ. (Plato, Republic, book 2 475:2)
  • ὑπολάβοι δ’ ἄν τισ ἐκ τῆσ πολλῆσ εὐδαιμονίασ καὶ μακραίωνασ ὀνομασθῆναι τοὺσ ἐνθάδε ἀνθρώπουσ, καὶ μάλιστα τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Ἀνακρέοντα μὲν οὕτωσ εἰπεῖν "ἔγωγ’ οὔτ’ ἂν Ἀμαλθίησ βουλοίμην "κέρασ οὔτ’ ἔτεα πεντήκοντά τε καὶ ἑκατὸν Ταρτησσοῦ βασιλεῦσαι," Ἡρόδοτον δὲ καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ βασιλέωσ καταγράψαι καλέσαντα Ἀργανθώνιον. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 28:5)

Synonyms

  1. lasting long

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

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