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θηράσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηράσιμος θηράσιμον

Structure: θηρασιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qhra/w

Sense

  1. to be hunted down or caught

Examples

  • οἱ δ’ ἐπτοημένοι φρένασ, κίρκοι πελειῶν οὐ μακρὰν λελειμμένοι, ἥξουσι θηρεύοντεσ οὐ θηρασίμουσ γάμουσ, φθόνον δὲ σωμάτων ἕξει θεόσ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 12:5)

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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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