Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πλείων

; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλείων

Etym.: comp. of polu/s

Sense

  1. more, larger, further, greater part of . ., longer, the greater part of
  2. the greater number, the mass or crowd, the many, the people, the greater part
  3. more, more, a higher degree, the best, more, good or use, more, further, beyond
  4. more, rather, rather, for the most part
  5. plus, annos plus septuaginta natus, more than to

Examples

  • τοῖσ δὲ ἤδη γεγηρακόσιν ὅσῳ πλεῖον τοῦ φρονεῖν ἢ τοῖσ νέοισ μέτεστι, τοσούτῳ καὶ πλείων ἐγγίνεται πόθοσ τῆσ πατρίδοσ· (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 9:2)
  • τὸ γὰρ προπονῆσαι πολλὰ καὶ προκαμεῖν οὐκ ἀνάλωσιν τῆσ ἰσχύοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπίδοσιν ἐργάζεται, καὶ ἀναρριπιζομένη πλείων γίγνεται. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 26:7)
  • πλείων μὲν πλεόνων μελέτη, μείζων δ’ ἐπιθήκη. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 44:4)
  • "πλείων ἡ ἀναισχυντία καὶ θράσοσ. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:70)
  • κᾆτα πῶσ αὕτη μὲν ὦ κακόδαιμον οὐδὲν γίγνεται ἐπιρρεόντων τῶν ποταμῶν πλείων, σὺ δὲ ζητεῖσ ποιῆσαι τἀργύριον πλεῖον τὸ σόν; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:32)
  • πλειὼν δὲ κατὰ χθονὸσ ἄρμενοσ εἶσιν. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 68:4)

Synonyms

  1. more

  2. the greater number

  3. more

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

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