Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

θάσσων

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Principal Part: θάσσων

Etym.: comp. of taxu/s

Sense

  1. quicker, swifter, more quickly.

Examples

  • αἰεὶ δ’ ἐν λόχοισ εὑρίσκεται Θυμβραῖον ἀμφὶ βωμὸν ἄστεωσ πέλασ θάσσων· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:13)
  • πλησίον δ’ ἐγὼ παρὼν ἥσυχοσ θάσσων ἔλευσσον. (Euripides, episode, trochees3)
  • ὅσον γὰρ οὔπω δῆλοσ ἦν θάσσων ἄνω, καὶ τὸν ξένον μὲν οὐκέτ’ εἰσορᾶν παρῆν, ἐκ δ’ αἰθέροσ φωνή τισ, ὡσ μὲν εἰκάσαι Διόνυσοσ, ἀνεβόησεν· (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:7)
  • ὑψοῦ δὲ θάσσων ὑψόθεν χαμαιριφὴσ πίπτει πρὸσ οὖδασ μυρίοισ οἰμώγμασιν Πενθεύσ· (Euripides, episode, lyric 5:14)
  • Ἀντίλοχ’ οὔ τισ σεῖο νεώτεροσ ἄλλοσ Ἀχαιῶν, οὔτε ποσὶν θάσσων οὔτ’ ἄλκιμοσ ὡσ σὺ μάχεσθαι· (Homer, Iliad, Book 15 59:4)

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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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