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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

  • ἐμοὶ δὲ δοκέει, εἴπερ ὦν τὰ ἐσ τοσόνδε ἄτοπα Ἡρακλέησ οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν ἐξεργάζεσθαι, κἄν ἑωυτὸν ἀποφῆναι μακροβιώτερον, ὡσ ὡραίῃ μιγῆναι τῇ παιδί. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 9 4:1)
  • οὗτοσ μὲν δὴ ἐπιδείκνυσιν ὁ λόγοσ ἔλαφον εἶναι πολλῷ καὶ ἐλέφαντοσ μακροβιώτερον θηρίον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 15:1)

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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