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πελάγιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πελάγιος πελάγιᾱ πελάγιον

Structure: πελαγι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/lagos

Sense

  1. of the sea, living in the sea
  2. out at sea, on the open sea

Examples

  • πόντου νιν ἐξήνεγκε πελάγιοσ κλύδων. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric8)
  • "ἀκηκόαμεν γοῦν ἁλιέωσ Ἐρετρικοῦ ἱερὸν ἰχθὺν καὶ ἄλλων πολλῶν ἁλιέων καλούντων τὸν πομπίλον ἐστὶν πελάγιοσ καὶ παρὰ τὰσ ναῦσ πυκνὰ φαίνεται ἐοικὼσ πηλαμύδι, ποικίλοσ, τὸν δ’ οὖν ἰχθύν τισ παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ ἕλκει · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 20 1:3)
  • ἐστὶ δὲ καὶ τῶν φωλευόντων ἐν ταῖσ χειμεριωτάταισ ἡμέραισ χαίρει τε πρόσγειοσ μᾶλλον ὢν ἢ πελάγιοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 974)
  • "τῶν σκορπίων ὁ μέν ἐστι πελάγιοσ, ὁ δὲ τεναγώδησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1155)
  • "καὶ ὁ μὲν πελάγιοσ πυρρόσ, ὁ δ’ ἕτεροσ μελανίζων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1156)

Synonyms

  1. of the sea

  2. out at sea

Related

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

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