Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μέτριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέτριος μέτριᾱ μέτριον

Structure: μετρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. within measure
  2. of average height, the common, moderate
  3. few
  4. holding to the mean, moderate, a mean or middle, the mean, not too great, common, not in strict, common men, the common, just sufficient
  5. moderate, tolerable, moderate terms
  6. moderate, temperate, virtuous
  7. proportionate, fitting
  8. moderately, within due limits, in due measure, fairly, moderately
  9. enough, sufficiently
  10. modestly, temperately, to fair terms

Examples

  • ταῦτα δὲ συντόμωσ καὶ ἀφελῶσ διανοίαισ τε χρησταῖσ καὶ γνώμαισ εὐκαίροισ καὶ ἐνθυμήμασι μετρίοισ περιλαβὼν ἐπὶ τὴν πρόθεσιν ἐπείγεται, δι’ ἧσ τὰ μέλλοντα ἐν ταῖσ ἀποδείξεσι λέγεσθαι προειπὼν καὶ τὸν ἀκροατὴν παρασκευάσασ εὐμαθῆ πρὸσ τὸν μέλλοντα λόγον ἐπὶ τὴν διήγησιν καθίσταται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 17 1:3)
  • αὐτοῦ γέ τοι Κάτωνοσ ἡδέωσ ἂν πυθοίμην εἰ μὲν ἀπολαυστὸν ὁ πλοῦτόσ ἐστι, τί σεμνύνῃ τῷ πολλὰ κεκτημένοσ ἀρκεῖσθαι μετρίοισ; (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 4 3:4)
  • "φέρε δή, τὴν εὐήθειαν ταύτην ἀφέντεσ, εἰ βούλεσθε χρήσασθαι μετρίοισ Ἀθηναίοισ καὶ μηδὲν ἐκβιασθῆναι παρὰ γνώμην, οὕτω διαλέγεσθε περὶ τῶν δικαίων ὡσ οὐκ ὄντεσ αὐτοκράτορεσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 14 7:5)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ τὰ φυτὰ τοῖσ μὲν μετρίοισ ὕδασι τρέφεται, τοῖσ δὲ πολλοῖσ πνίγεται, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ψυχὴ τοῖσ μὲν συμμέτροισ αὒξεται πόνοισ, τοῖσ δ’ ὑπερβάλλουσι βαπτίζεται. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 13 2:1)
  • παρὰ πάντα δὲ ταῦτα , ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἱεροπρεπέστατον, ἐθίζειν τοὺσ παῖδασ τῷ τἀληθῆ λέγειν τὸ γὰρ ψεύδεσθαι δουλοπρεπὲσ καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ ἄξιον μισεῖσθαι καὶ οὐδὲ μετρίοισ δούλοισ συγγνωστόν. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 14 27:1)

Synonyms

  1. within measure

  2. few

  3. moderate

  4. moderate

  5. enough

Related

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

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