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μειλίχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μειλίχιος μειλίχιᾱ μειλίχιον

Structure: μειλιχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: meili/ssw

Sense

  1. gentle, mild, soothing, with gentle words, gently
  2. gracious, those who invoked him with propitiatory offerings
  3. propitiatory, honied, honey

Examples

  • καὶ τοὺσ μειλιχίουσ τρέμων καὶ δεδοικώσ, παρ’ ὧν αἰτούμεθα πλοῦτον εὐπορίαν εἰρήνην ὁμόνοιαν ὄρθωσιν λόγων καὶ ἔργων τῶν, ἀρίστων. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 4 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. gentle

Related

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

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