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ποσός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποσός ποσή ποσόν

Structure: πος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a certain quantity or magnitude

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ πᾶσ ἄν τισ ὁμολογῆσαί μοι δοκεῖ, ὅτι ποσῆσ γέ τινοσ τριβῆσ περὶ τὸ ἀκούειν προσδεῖται ὁ τῶν φιλοσόφων ἀκουσόμενοσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 10:1)
  • μετὰ πόσησ ἀκριβείασ ἔκρινασ τοὺσ υἱούσ σου, ὧν τοῖσ πατράσιν ὅρκουσ καὶ συνθήκασ ἔδωκασ ἀγαθῶν ὑποσχέσεων̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 12:21)
  • Ιοὐδαῖοι καὶ Σύροι περὶ θεῶν φρονοῦσιν, ὁρ́α τὰ τῶν ποιητῶν πόσησ ἐμπέπλησται δεισιδαιμονίασ. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 38 2:2)
  • τὸ βῆτα δὲ τοῦτ’ ἐπρίω νῦν, εἰπέ, πόσησ τιμῆσ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3372)
  • ἔνδοθεν δὲ ἀνοιχθεὶσ πόσησ οἰέσθε γέμει, ὦ ἄνδρεσ συμπόται, σωφροσύνησ; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 482:6)
  • τὸ γὰρ οὕτωσ ἀπελάσαι τὸν πατέρα τῆσ ἐρωμένησ καὶ μὴ φείσασθαι δἰ αὐτὴν καὶ οὐχ ὅπωσ παραμυθήσασθαι τὸν πρεσβύτην εἰπόντα ὡσ οὐδὲν αὐτοῦ τῇ θυγατρὶ δεινὸν εἰή, τοὐναντίον δὲ μὴ μόνον ἐκείνῳ ἀπειλεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν Χρυσηίδα ἀτιμάζειν λέγοντα, τὴν δ̓ ἐγὼ οὐ λύσω πρίν μιν καὶ γῆρασ ἔπεισιν ἡμετέρῳ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ ἐν Ἄργεϊ, τηλόθι πάτρησ, ἱστὸν ἐποιχομένην καὶ ἐμὸν λέχοσ ἀντιόωσαν, πόσησ τινὸσ ὑπερηφανίασ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 25:2)

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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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