Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πλησίστιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλησίστιος πλησίστιον

Structure: πλησιστι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pi/mplhmi

Sense

  1. filling the sails
  2. with full sails

Examples

  • ^ ταυτὶ μὲν ἤδη κατὰ ῥοῦν προχωρεῖ τῷ Δάμιδι καὶ πλησίστιοσ ἐπὶ τὴν νίκην φέρεται. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 49:4)
  • τῷ γὰρ ὄντι πλησίστιοσ μὲν ἐπὶ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ὁ ἀκόλαστοσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν φέρεται καὶ δίδωσιν ἑαυτὸν καὶ συγκατευθύνει· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 6 30:1)
  • τῷ γὰρ ὄντι πλησίστιοσ μὲν ἐπὶ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ὁ ἀκόλαστοσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν φέρεται καὶ δίδωσιν ἑαυτὸν καὶ συγκατευθύνει· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 6 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. filling the sails

  2. with full sails

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

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