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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

  • καὶ γὰρ ὁ λόγοσ νεαρὸν μὲν οὐδὲν οὐδὲ κομψὸν εἶχεν, ἀλλ’ ἦν ὄρθιοσ Καὶ περιπληθὴσ Καὶ τραχύσ, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ Καὶ χάρισ ἀγωγὸσ ἀκοῆσ ἐπέτρεχε τῇ τραχύτητι τῶν νοημάτων, Καὶ τὸ ἦθοσ αὐτοῦ καταμιγνύμενον ἡδονήν τινα Καὶ μειδίαμα τῷ σεμνῷ παρεῖχεν οὐκ ἀπάνθρωπον. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 5 2:1)
  • "νῆσόσ τισ Συρίη κικλήσκεται, εἴ που ἀκούεισ, Ὀρτυγίησ καθύπερθεν, ὅθι τροπαὶ ἠελίοιο, οὔ τι περιπληθὴσ λίην τόσον, ἀλλ’ ἀγαθὴ μέν, εὔβοτοσ, εὔμηλοσ, οἰνοπληθήσ, πολύπυροσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 50:1)

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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