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θεσπέσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεσπέσιος θεσπέσιη θεσπέσιον

Structure: θεσπεσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qeo/s, e)/spon ei)=pon, v. qe/spis

Sense

  1. divinely sounding, divinely sweet
  2. that can be spoken by none but God, unspeakable, ineffable;
  3. divine, by the will of God, of divination
  4. wondrous, marvellous, portentous, awful, marvellous fine, divinely sweet
  5. unspeakably

Examples

  • λαβόντα δὲ μεθ’ ἡμέραν μὲν ἐν τῇ πόλει χρῆσθαι οὐκ ἀσφαλὲσ οἰέσθαι εἶναι, νύκτωρ δὲ ὑπὸ κόλπου ἔχοντα μόνον προελθεῖν εἰσ τὸ προάστειον καὶ προχειρισάμενον κρούειν καὶ συνταράττειν τὰσ χορδὰσ ἄτεχνον καὶ ἄμουσον νεανίσκον, ἐλπίζοντα μέλη τινὰ θεσπέσια ὑπηχήσειν τὴν λύραν ὑφ’ ὧν πάντασ καταθέλξειν καὶ κηλήσειν, καὶ ὅλωσ μακάριον ἔσεσθαι κληρονομήσαντα τῆσ Ὀρφέωσ μουσικῆσ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 12:1)
  • οὕτω θεσπέσια ἐφθέγξατο. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 3:4)
  • "ὁ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα ἐποίησε θεσπέσια ὡσ ἀληθῶσ· (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 11:8)
  • μορφὴν μὲν τοιόσδε ὤφθη μοι, ἃ δὲ εἶπε, πάνυ θεσπέσια καὶ ταῦτα, προειρῆσθαι ὑμῖν ἄξια. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:7)
  • ὀσμὴ θεσπεσία κατὰ πᾶν δ’ ἔχει ὑψερεφὲσ δῶ, ἀμβροσία καὶ νέκταρ ὁμοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 53 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. divinely sounding

  2. divine

  3. unspeakably

Related

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

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