Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σεῖος σεῖη σεῖον

Structure: σει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Lacon. for qei=os.

Sense

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

  • ὁ σείων τὴν ὑπ̓ οὐρανὸν ἐκ θεμελίων, οἱ δὲ στῦλοι αὐτῆσ σαλεύονται. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 9:6)
  • εἰπὸν πρὸσ Ζοροβάβελ τὸν τοῦ Σαλαθιὴλ ἐκ φυλῆσ Ἰούδα λέγων. ἐγὼ σείω τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὴν ξηρὰν (Septuagint, Prophetia Aggaei 2:21)
  • οἱ ἰδόντεσ σε θαυμάσονται ἐπὶ σοὶ καὶ ἐροῦσιν. οὗτοσ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ὁ παροξύνων τὴν γῆν, ὁ σείων βασιλεῖσ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 14:16)
  • ἑώθεν δὲ γυμνὸσ εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν προπηδήσασ, διάζωμα περὶ τὸ αἰδοῖον ἔχων, κατάχρυσον καὶ τοῦτο, καὶ τὴν ἁρ́πην ἐκείνην φέρων, σείων ἅμα τὴν κόμην ἄνετον ὥσπερ οἱ τῇ μητρὶ ἀγείροντέσ τε καὶ ἐνθεαζόμενοι, ἐδημηγόρει ἐπὶ βωμόν τινα ὑψηλὸν ἀναβὰσ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐμακάριζεν αὐτίκα μάλα δεξομένην ἐναργῆ τὸν θεόν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 13:3)
  • οἳ πρὶν μὲν [πολύπυργο]ν Ἰλίου θαητὸν ἄστυ οὐ λεῖπον, ἀτυζόμενοι [δὲ πτ]ᾶσσον ὀξεῖαν μάχαν, εὖτ’ ἐν πεδίῳ κλονέων μαίνοιτ’ Ἀχιλλεύσ, λαοφόνον δόρυ σείων· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 22:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ σπάνιον καὶ τὸ θεῖον ἄνδρα εἶναι, καθάπερ οἱ Λάκωνεσ εἰώθασι προσαγορεύειν, <οἳ> ὅταν ἀγασθῶσι σφόδρα του, σεῖοσ ἀνήρ φασιν, οὕτω καὶ ὁ θηριώδησ ἐν τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ σπάνιοσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 3:2)

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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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