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σταδαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σταδαῖος σταδαῖη σταδαῖον

Structure: σταδαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sta/dhn

Sense

  1. standing erect or upright, close fight

Examples

  • ἔγχη σταδαῖα καὶ φεράσπιδεσ σαγαί. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees 1:11)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ πύρπνοον Τυφῶν’ ἔχει, Ὑπερβίῳ δὲ Ζεὺσ πατὴρ ἐπ’ ἀσπίδοσ σταδαῖοσ ἧσται, διὰ χερὸσ βέλοσ φλέγων· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 2 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. standing erect or upright

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

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