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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

  • ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν περί τε τῶν μακροβίων γενῶν καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν, ἅτινά φασιν ὡσ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον διαγίγνεσθαι χρόνον, οἱ μὲν διὰ τὴν γῆν καὶ τὸν ἀέρα, οἱ δὲ διὰ τὴν δίαιταν, οἱ δὲ καὶ δι’ ἄμφω. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 6:1)
  • οὕτω γὰρ ἂν ἀπιδὼν καὶ σὺ τῶν μακροβίων ἀνδρῶν πρὸσ τὸ ὅμοιον τῆσ ἕξεωσ καὶ τῆσ τύχησ ἑτοιμότερον ἐλπίσειασ γῆρασ ὑγιεινὸν καὶ μακρὸν καὶ ἅμα ζηλώσασ ἐργάσαιο σαυτῷ τῇ διαίτῃ μέγιστόν τε ἅμα καὶ ὑγιεινότατον βίον. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 7:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ὑπεσχόμην καὶ Ῥωμαίων τινὰσ καὶ τῶν τὴν Ἰταλίαν οἰκησάντων μακροβίων ἀναγράψαι, τούτουσ σοι, θεῶν βουλομένων, ἱερώτατε Κυίντιλλε, ἐν ἄλλῳ δηλώσομεν λόγῳ. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 29:2)
  • αὐτὸσ δ’ ἅμ’ ἑῴ τὸν στρατὸν ἐξέτασσεν, ὀγδοήκοντα μὲν καὶ ὀκτὼ γεγονὼσ ἔτη, ἱππεύων δ’ ἔτι καρτερῶσ καὶ γυμνὸν τὸν ἵππον ἀναβαίνων, ὡσ ἔθοσ ἐστὶ Νομάσι, καὶ στρατηγῶν καὶ μαχόμενοσ, εἰσὶ γὰρ Λιβύων οἱ Νομάδεσ εὐρωστότατοι, καὶ μακροβίων ὄντων μακροβιώτατοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 10 5:3)
  • Καὶ ἐπανελθὼν ἐπ’ οἴκου μετ’ οὐ πολὺ μετήλλαξεν, ὥσ φησι Φλέγων ἐν τῷ Περὶ μακροβίων, βιοὺσ ἔτη ἑπτὰ καὶ πεντήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. i'. EPIMENIDHS 3:4)

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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