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πελώριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πελώριος πελώριον

Structure: πελωρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from pe/lwr

Sense

  1. gigantic, huge, the mighty things, mighty ones

Examples

  • "καὶ θύοντασ Διὶ Πελωρίῳ τραπέζασ τε λαμπρῶσ κοσμοῦντασ προτιθέναι καὶ οὕτωσ φιλάνθρωπον τὴν πανήγυριν συντελεῖν, ὥστε καὶ τοὺσ ξένουσ ἅπαντασ ἐπὶ τὴν θοίνην παραλαμβάνειν καὶ τοὺσ δεσμώτασ λύειν καὶ τοὺσ οἰκέτασ κατακλίναντασ μετὰ πάσησ παρρησίασ ἑστιᾶν, διακονούντων αὐτοῖσ τῶν δεσποτῶν καὶ τὸ σύνολον ἔτι καὶ νῦν Θεσσαλοὺσ μεγίστην ἑορτὴν ἄγοντασ προσαγορεύειν Πελώρια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 45 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. gigantic

Related

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

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