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περαίτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περαίτερος περαίτερᾱ περαίτερον

Structure: περαιτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/ra

Sense

  1. beyond, leading further
  2. further
  3. beyond what is fit, too far

Examples

  • ταῦτα δῆτ’ οὐ δεινὰ πράγματ’ ἐστὶ καὶ περαιτέρω; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Choral, trochees2)
  • ἓν τοῦτ’ οἶδα κοὐ περαιτέρω. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode9)
  • καὶ ξυνθανοῦμαί γ’, ὡσ μάθῃσ περαιτέρω. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 4:11)
  • βουλυτὸσ ἢ περαιτέρω; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 1 1:12)
  • γρ Παῦε, Ὀδυσσεῦ, καὶ περαιτέρω μηδὲν εἴπῃσ ὡσ καὶ σοῦ πάντεσ ἡμεῖσ καταφρονοῦμεν, ὡσ μάτην ἄρα δεινὸσ ἐλέγου καὶ τῷ φρονεῖν πολὺ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων ἐδόκεισ διαφέρειν, ὃσ αὐτὸ τοῦτ’ ἔδεισασ, τὴν μεταβολὴν ἐκ χειρόνων εἰσ ἀμείνω, μὴ σκεψάμενοσ· (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 2 3:1)

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

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