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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

  • πολλοὺσ πένητασ, ὀλβίουσ δὲ τῷ λόγῳ δοκοῦντασ εἶναι συμμάχουσ ἄναξ ἔχει, οἳ στάσιν ἔθηκαν καὶ διώλεσαν πόλιν ἐφ’ ἁρπαγαῖσι τῶν πέλασ, τὰ δ’ ἐν δόμοισ δαπάναισι φροῦδα διαφυγόνθ’ ὑπ’ ἀργίασ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 4:18)
  • οἱ δὲ κόλακεσ τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ καὶ πλουσίουσ καὶ ἄρχοντασ οὐκ ὀλβίουσ μόνον καὶ μακαρίουσ ἀλλὰ καὶ φρονήσει καὶ τέχνῃ καὶ ἀρετῇ πάσῃ πρωτεύοντασ ἀναγορεύουσιν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 15 8:1)
  • λιπαρεόντων δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ ὄχλον παρεχόντων, ἔλεγε δὴ ὡσ ἦλθε ἀρχὴν ὁ Σόλων ἐὼν Ἀθηναῖοσ, καὶ θεησάμενοσ πάντα τὸν ἑωυτοῦ ὄλβον ἀποφλαυρίσειε οἱᾶ δὴ εἶπασ, ὥσ τε αὐτῷ πάντα ἀποβεβήκοι τῇ περ ἐκεῖνοσ εἶπε, οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον ἐσ ἑωυτὸν λέγων ἢ οὐκ ἐσ ἅπαν τὸ ἀνθρώπινον καὶ μάλιστα τοὺσ παρὰ σφίσι αὐτοῖσι ὀλβίουσ δοκέοντασ εἶναι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 86 6:1)

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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