Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • οἳ δ’ ἀλαλητῷ θεσπεσίῳ σύνισαν· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 35:8)
  • ταῦτα, ὦ φιλότησ, ὀλίγα ἐκ πολλῶν δείγματοσ ἕνεκα γράψαι ἠξίωσα, καὶ σοὶ μὲν χαριζόμενοσ, ἀνδρὶ ἑταίρῳ καὶ φίλῳ καὶ ὃν ἐγὼ πάντων μάλιστα θαυμάσασ ἔχω ἐπί τε σοφίᾳ καὶ τῷ πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν ἔρωτι καὶ τρόπου πραότητι καὶ ἐπιεικείᾳ καὶ γαλήνῃ βίου καὶ δεξιότητι πρὸσ τοὺσ συνόντασ, τὸ πλέον δέ, ‐ ὅπερ καὶ σοὶ ἥδιον, ‐ Ἐπικούρῳ τιμωρῶν, ἀνδρὶ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἱερῷ καὶ θεσπεσίῳ τὴν φύσιν καὶ μόνῳ μετ’ ἀληθείασ τὰ καλὰ ἐγνωκότι καὶ παραδεδωκότι καὶ ἐλευθερωτῇ τῶν ὁμιλησάντων αὐτῷ γενομένῳ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 61:1)
  • ἐλθὼν δὲ συγγίγνομαί τινι τῶν Χαλδαίων σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ καὶ θεσπεσίῳ τὴν τέχνην, πολιῷ μὲν τὴν κόμην, γένειον δὲ μάλα σεμνὸν καθειμένῳ, τοὔνομα δὲ ἦν αὐτῷ Μιθροβαρζάνησ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 6:6)
  • εἰσ εἰκόνα Διδοῦσ ἀρχέτυπον Διδοῦσ ἐρικυδέοσ, ὦ ξένε, λεύσσεισ, εἰκόνα θεσπεσίῳ κάλλεϊ λαμπομένην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1511)
  • οὐ νότοσ, οὐ βορέησ ἱερὸν σέο δῶμα τινάξει, νηῷ θεσπεσίῳ τῷδε φυλασσόμενον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 52)

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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