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μετάρσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετάρσιος

Structure: μεταρσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: metai/rw

Sense

  1. raised form the ground, high in air, scattered to the winds, hoisted
  2. on the high sea, out at sea
  3. in air, high above this world
  4. airy, empty
  5. high, quick.

Examples

  • ἀσχήμονεσ μὲν ἀγχόναι μετάρσιοι, κἀν τοῖσι δούλοισ δυσπρεπὲσ νομίζεται· (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:7)
  • ἐκ δὲ θυμάτων Ἥφαιστοσ οὐκ ἔλαμπεν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ σποδῷ μυδῶσα κηκὶσ μηρίων ἐτήκετο κἄτυφε κἀνέπτυε, καὶ μετάρσιοι χολαὶ διεσπείροντο, καὶ καταρρυεῖσ μηροὶ καλυπτῆσ ἐξέκειντο πιμελῆσ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode16)

Synonyms

  1. on the high sea

  2. in air

  3. airy

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

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