Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μεγαλότολμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλότολμος μεγαλότολμον

Structure: μεγαλοτολμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: to/lma

Sense

  1. greatly adventurous

Examples

  • τίσ οὕτωσ ἐν λόγοισ μεγαλότολμοσ, ὡσ ἐπὶ μὲν τοὺσ τρεῖσ μοιχοὺσ ἀντὶ ξίφουσ τρίαιναν αἰτεῖν ; (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 26:4)
  • οὐχ οὕτω μεγαλότολμοσ ἐγώ, μηδὲ τοῦτο δείσῃσ περὶ ἐμοῦ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 42)
  • ἀνὴρ [δὲ] μήτε συνέσεωσ ὢν ἐνδεὴσ μήτε τοῦ τὰ νοηθέντα πρὸσ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ σαφῶσ ἐξενεγκεῖν ἄπειροσ, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἀμφοτέροισ ἄκροσ πρόσ τε τὰ ἔργα καὶ τοὺσ κινδύνουσ εὔψυχοσ καὶ μεγαλότολμοσ πρυτανεῦσαί τε τὰ κατὰ τὴν εἰρήνην δεξιώτατοσ καὶ πρὸσ ἅπαντα καιρὸν τὴν ἀρετὴν ἡρμοσμένοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 148:1)

Synonyms

  1. greatly adventurous

Related

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

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