Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὄλβιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄλβιος ὄλβιον

Structure: ὀλβι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/lbos

Sense

  1. happy, blest, wealth
  2. rich gifts, happily

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • κατὰ δὲ τὸν Βορυσθένην ἄνω πλέοντι πόλισ Ἑλλὰσ ἄνομα Ὀλβία πεπόλισται. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 20 2:4)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐλθὲ καὶ μετάσχεσ ἱκεσίασ φίλοισ, σῇ μητρὶ προσπεσοῦσα τῇ μέγ’ ὀλβίᾳ, Μενέλαον ἡμᾶσ μὴ θανόντασ εἰσιδεῖν. (Euripides, episode, iambic27)
  • κεῖν’ ἔχω ὅσσ1’ ἔφαγον καὶ ἐφύβρισα καὶ σὺν ἔρωτι τέρπν’ ἔπαθον τὰ δὲ πολλὰ καὶ ὄλβια πάντα λέλυνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 14 2:3)
  • καὶ τά τε πάλαι μὲν Ῥιπαῖα καλούμενα ὄρη, εἶθ’ ὕστερον Ὄλβια προσαγορευθέντα, νῦν δὲ Ἄλπια ἔστι δὲ τῆσ Γαλατίασ αὐτομάτωσ ὕλησ ἐμπρησθείσησ ἀργύρῳ διερρύη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1943)
  • καὶ μικρὸν προελθὼν ἐν ἄλλῳ θρήνῳ περὶ ψυχῆσ λέγων φησὶν ὀλβίᾳ δ’ ἅπαντεσ αἴσᾳ λυσίπονον τελευτάν. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 35 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. rich gifts

Related

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

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