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σπερχνός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπερχνός σπερχνή σπερχνόν

Structure: σπερχν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hasty, rapid, hurried

Examples

  • καί ῥ’ ἔμβαλε χάλκεον ἔγχοσ, σπερχνὸν παιδὸσ ἑοῦ κοτέων πέρι τεθνηῶτοσ, ἐν σάκεϊ μεγάλῳ. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 43:3)
  • ἐγὼ δέ γ’ ἄνδρασ ἓξ ἐμοὶ σὺν ἑβδόμῳ ἀντηρέτασ ἐχθροῖσι τὸν μέγαν τρόπον εἰσ ἑπτατειχεῖσ ἐξόδουσ τάξω μολών, πρὶν ἀγγέλουσ σπερχνούσ τε καὶ ταχυρρόθουσ λόγουσ ἱκέσθαι καὶ φλέγειν χρείασ ὕπο. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. hasty

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

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