Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολέμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολέμιος πολέμιᾱ πολέμιον

Structure: πολεμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: po/lemos

Sense

  1. of or belonging to war, whatever belongs to war, war and its business
  2. of or like an enemy, hostile, hostile, an enemy, the enemy, hostility
  3. opposed, adverse
  4. of or from the enemy, enemy's wares, contraband, the enemy's country
  5. in hostile manner

Examples

  • καὶ μετῄει τὴν ἀρχὴν κελευσθεὶσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ὁ υἱὸσ Ἀππίου Κλαυδίου τοῦ πολεμιωτάτου τῷ δήμῳ δοκοῦντοσ εἶναι, μεστὸσ αὐθαδείασ ἀνὴρ καὶ θράσουσ, ἑταίροισ τε καὶ πελάταισ ἁπάντων πλεῖστον τῶν καθ’ ἡλικίαν δυνάμενοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 90 2:1)
  • νῦν δὲ δὴ τί ἂν οἰόμεθα παθεῖν, Λακεδαιμονίοισ μὲν καὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων συμμάχων ὑπαρχόντων, Ἀθηναίων δὲ καὶ οἳ ἐκείνοισ τότε ἦσαν σύμμαχοι πάντων προσγεγενημένων, Τισσαφέρνουσ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ ἄλλων βαρβάρων πάντων πολεμίων ἡμῖν ὄντων, πολεμιωτάτου δὲ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἄνω βασιλέωσ, ὃν ἤλθομεν ἀφαιρησόμενοι τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ ἀποκτενοῦντεσ, εἰ δυναίμεθα; (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 1 33:1)
  • καὶ πρότερον διδοὺσ αὐτὸσ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ κατὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐντολὰσ, τότ’ ἀκούειν ἠναγκάζετο τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἑνὸσ, καὶ ταῦτα τοῦ πάντων ἐχθίστου καὶ πολεμιωτάτου. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 80:3)

Synonyms

  1. of or like an enemy

  2. opposed

  3. in hostile manner

Related

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

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