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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

  • ἅμα δὲ ἑῴ, καταπηχθέντων σταυρῶν ἐξ ὀλίγου διαστήματοσ ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ, σανίδεσ τοῖσ σταυροῖσ ἐπετέθησαν, καὶ διὰ τῶνδε τῶν καταστρωμάτων ὁ μὲν Καῖσαρ καὶ ὁ Ἀντώνιοσ παρῆλθον ἐσ τὸ πρὸσ τῇ γῇ πεποιημένον, ὁ δὲ Πομπήιοσ καὶ ὁ Λίβων ἐσ τὸ πελαγιώτερον, ὀλίγου ῥεύματοσ αὐτοὺσ διείργοντοσ μὴ κεκραγότασ ἀλλήλων ἀκούειν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 8 5:3)
  • Μηνόδωροσ μὲν οὖν, ἀρχόμενον τὸ δεινὸν ἐλπίσασ πλεονάσειν, ἐσ τὸ πελαγιώτερον ἀνήχθη καὶ ἐπ’ ἀγκυρῶν διεσάλευεν· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 10 2:1)

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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