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περιχαρής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιχαρής περιχαρές

Structure: περιχαρη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xai/rw

Sense

  1. exceeding joyous or glad, excessive joy

Examples

  • αὐτὸν οἶμαι ἄν σε ἀπιέναι περιχαρῆ γενόμενον, ὡσ τῶν μεγίστων ἀγαθῶν κεκυρηκότα. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 20:2)
  • ἐν ᾧ δ’ ἐγίνετο ταῦτα, ὁ παρασπίζων τῷ πεσόντι Ῥωμαῖοσ ὁρῶν ἐπὶ τῷ κατορθώματι περιχαρῆ τὸν Ἀλβανὸν ὠθεῖται ταχὺσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν καὶ πολλὰ μὲν τραύματα δούσ, πολλὰ δὲ αὐτὸσ λαβὼν τυγχάνει πωσ κατὰ τῆσ σφαγῆσ αὐτοῦ βάψασ τὸ ξίφοσ καὶ διαχρησάμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 19 7:3)
  • ἔξω δὲ γενομένη τῆσ πόλεωσ ὡσ τὸν ἀδελφὸν εἶδε περιχαρῆ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 21 5:1)

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

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