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μεθύστερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεθύστερος μεθύστερᾱ μεθύστερον

Structure: μεθυστερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. living after, posterity
  2. afterwards, hereafter, so long after, so late, in a moment, too late

Examples

  • "ἦ τοῖον ἔργον καὶ θεοῖσι προσφιλέσ, καλόν τ’ ἀκοῦσαι καὶ λέγειν μεθυστέροισ, πόλιν πατρῴαν καὶ θεοὺσ τοὺσ ἐγγενεῖσ πορθεῖν, στράτευμ’ ἐπακτὸν ἐμβεβληκότα; (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 3 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. living after

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

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