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μακρόβιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μακρόβιος μακρόβιον

Structure: μακροβι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bi/os

Sense

  1. long-lived

Examples

  • καὶ γένη δὲ ὅλα μακρόβια ἱστορεῖται διὰ τὴν δίαιταν, ὥσπερ Αἰγυπτίων οἱ καλούμενοι ἱερογραμματεῖσ. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 4:1)
  • ’ φησὶν γάρ ὅτι κήρυκεσ μὲν καὶ πάντα τὰ ὀστρακόδερμα ἀνόχευτον αὐτῶν ἐστι τὸ γένοσ καὶ ὅτι ἡ πορφύρα καὶ ὁ κῆρυξ μακρόβια, ζῆν γὰρ τὴν πορφύραν ἔτη ἓξ πόθεν ἦν αὐτῷ εἰδέναι; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 47 1:2)
  • "μακρόβια δ’ ἐστὶν καὶ ἡ πορφύρα καὶ ὁ κῆρυξ καὶ ζῇ περὶ ἔτη ἕξ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 37 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. long-lived

Related

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

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