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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

  • Δήμητερ ἑστιοῦχ’ Ἐλευσῖνοσ χθονὸσ τῆσδ’, οἵ τε ναοὺσ ἔχετε πρόσπολοι θεᾶσ, εὐδαιμονεῖν με Θησέα τε παῖδ’ ἐμὸν πόλιν τ’ Ἀθηνῶν τήν τε Πιτθέωσ χθόνα, ἐν ᾗ με θρέψασ ὀλβίοισ ἐν δώμασιν Αἴθραν πατὴρ δίδωσι τῷ Πανδίονοσ Αἰγεῖ δάμαρτα, Λοξίου μαντεύμασιν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:1)
  • ἃ δ’ ἐστὶ γήρᾳ τῷδ’ ἀσυμφορώτατα, τούτοισ με προσθήσουσιν, ἢ θυρῶν λάτριν κλῇδασ φυλάσσειν, τὴν τεκοῦσαν Ἕκτορα, ἢ σιτοποιεῖν, κἀν πέδῳ κοίτασ ἔχειν ῥυσοῖσι νώτοισ, βασιλικῶν ἐκ δεμνίων, τρυχηρὰ περὶ τρυχηρὸν εἱμένην χρόα πέπλων λακίσματ’, ἀδόκιμ’ ὀλβίοισ ἔχειν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic19)
  • ὦ πάντ’ ἀγαθὰ πράττοντεσ, ὦ μείζω λόγου, ὦ τρισμακάριον πτηνὸν ὀρνίθων γένοσ, δέχεσθε τὸν τύραννον ὀλβίοισ δόμοισ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὀλβία τε καὶ ξὺν ὀλβίοισ ἀεὶ γένοιτ’, ἐκείνου γ’ οὖσα παντελὴσ δάμαρ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode10)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ὀλβίοισ γε καὶ τὸ νικᾶσθαι πρέπει. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 9:22)

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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