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νηπενθής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηπενθής νηπενθές

Structure: νηπενθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pe/nqos

Sense

  1. banishing pain, an opiate

Examples

  • καὶ λύπῃ ἐχόμενοσ ἐξέρχεται τοῦ θεάτρου φαιδρότεροσ ὥσπερ τι φάρμακον ληθεδανὸν καὶ κατὰ τὸν ποιητὴν νηπενθέσ τε καὶ ἄχολον πιών. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 79:1)
  • "τῶν γὰρ υἱέων νεηνιέων ἐόντων καὶ καλῶν, ἐν ὀκτὼ δὲ τῇσι πάσῃσι ἡμέρῃσι ἀποθανόντων νηπενθέωσ ἀνέτλη· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 33 4:1)
  • "νηπενθέσ ἄχολόν τε, κακῶν ἐπίληθον ἁπάντων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6362)
  • "τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν ὡσ ἐοίκε τὸ νηπενθὲσ φάρμακον καὶ ἀνώδυνον, λόγοσ ἔχων καιρὸν ἁρμόζοντα τοῖσ ὑποκειμένοισ πάθεσι καὶ πράγμασιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 11:5)
  • οὕτωσ σύγε ἀνεῦρεσ καὶ ἐμηχανήσω θέαμα, ἀτεχνῶσ νηπενθέσ τ’ ἄχολόν τε, κακῶν ἐπίληθεσ ἁπάντων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 67:1)

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

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