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περιπληθής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιπληθής περιπληθές

Structure: περιπληθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: plh=qos

Sense

  1. very full of people
  2. very large

Examples

  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ Μάριοσ φιλοτίμωσ πάνυ καὶ μειρακιωδῶσ ἀποτριβόμενοσ τὸ γῆρασ καὶ τὴν ἀσθένειαν ὁσημέραι κατέβαινεν εἰσ τὸ πεδίον, καὶ μετὰ τῶν νεανίσκων γυμναζόμενοσ ἐπεδείκνυε τὸ σῶμα κοῦφον μὲν ὅπλοισ, ἔποχον δὲ ταῖσ ἱππασίαισ, καίπερ οὐκ εὐσταλὴσ γεγονώσ ἐν γήρᾳ τὸν ὄγκον, ἀλλ’ εἰσ σάρκα περιπληθῆ καὶ βαρεῖαν ἐνδεδωκώσ. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 34 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. very full of people

  2. very large

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

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