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

  • εἰ μέτριοσ εἰή μέχρι δεῦρο, ἀνεκτόσ, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀνήσει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 2:3)
  • ναύταισ γὰρ ἢν μὲν μέτριοσ ᾖ χειμὼν φέρειν, προθυμίαν ἔχουσι σωθῆναι πόνων, ὁ μὲν παρ’ οἰάχ’, ὁ δ’ ἐπὶ λαίφεσιν βεβώσ, ὁ δ’ ἄντλον εἴργων ναόσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 3:10)
  • ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ ὁ κρινόμενοσ νὴ Δία μέτριοσ τὸν τρόπον, καὶ προγόνων χρηστῶν, καὶ πολλὰ ἡμᾶσ καὶ ἰδία καὶ δημοσίᾳ καλὰ εἰργασμένοσ, ὥστε διὰ ταῦτ’ ἄξιόν ἐστιν αὐτοῦ φείσασθαι; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 11:1)
  • ὃν οὐχ εἷσ ἀνὴρ ἀλλὰ πᾶσα ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ζητήσασα ἀποπέφαγκε χρήματ’ ἔχειν καθ’ ὑμῶν, ὃσ οὐσίαν ἔχων πολλὴν καὶ παίδων ἀρρένων οὐκ ὄντων αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐδενὸσ ἄλλου δεόμενοσ ὧν <ἂν> ἄνθρωποσ μέτριοσ δεηθείη, οὐκ ἀπέσχετο χρημάτων διδομένων κατὰ τῆσ πατρίδοσ, οὐδ’ ἀπεκρύψατο τὴν ἔμφυτον πονηρίαν, ἀλλ’ ἀνεῖλε πᾶσαν τὴν γεγενημένην αὑτῷ πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ πίστιν, καὶ οἷσ πρότερον ἔφη διαφέρεσθαι, πρὸσ τούτουσ ἔταξεν αὑτόν, καὶ ἐξήλεγξεν αὑτοῦ τὴν προσποίητον καλοκαγαθίαν, ὅτι ψευδὴσ ἦν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 21:1)
  • μέτριοσ, ἐπιεικήσ, ἁρμόδιοσ τῷ βίῳ, τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, διπλοῦσ. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 25:6)

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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