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μακρολόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μακρολόγος μακρολόγον

Structure: μακρολογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. speaking at length

Examples

  • τίνα οὖν ἀποφαινώμεθα τὸν μακρολογώτερον εἶναι; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 313:4)
  • αἵ τε γὰρ συμφοραὶ ποιοῦσι μακρολόγουσ, καὶ ἅμα συνθηκῶν οὐδὲν ἐν ταῖσ ἱκεσίαισ δυνατώτερον, οὐδ’ ἔχομεν ἐν οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἀντὶ λόγων καταφυγεῖν, οἳ τὴν δύναμιν ὑμῖν ἅπασαν ἐξέδομεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 4:8)

Synonyms

  1. speaking at length

Related

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

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