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ταλαντιαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταλαντιαῖος ταλαντιαῖη ταλαντιαῖον

Structure: ταλαντιαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ta/lanton

Sense

  1. worth a talent

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

  • καίτοι πῶσ οὐ δεινόν, εἰ ἕτεροι μὲν οἶκοι ταλαντιαῖοι καὶ διτάλαντοι καταλειφθέντεσ ἐκ τοῦ μισθωθῆναι διπλάσιοι καὶ τριπλάσιοι γεγόνασιν, ὥστ’ ἀξιοῦσθαι λῃτουργεῖν, ὁ δ’ ἐμὸσ τριηραρχεῖν εἰθισμένοσ καὶ μεγάλασ εἰσφορὰσ εἰσφέρειν μηδὲ μικρὰσ δυνήσεται διὰ τὰσ τούτων ἀναισχυντίασ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 85:1)
  • ὁμοῦ δὲ οἵ τε καταπέλται τὰσ λόγχασ ἀνερροίζουν καὶ ταλαντιαῖοι λίθοι μέγεθοσ ἐκ τῶν πετροβόλων ἐβάλλοντο πῦρ τε καὶ πλῆθοσ ἀθρόων οἰστῶν, ἅπερ οὐ μόνον τὸ τεῖχοσ ἀνεπίβατον τοῖσ Ιοὐδαίοισ ἐποίησεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἐντὸσ ὅσησ ἐφικνεῖτο χώρασ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 208:1)
  • ταλαντιαῖοι μὲν γὰρ ἦσαν αἱ βαλλόμεναι πέτραι, δύο δὲ καὶ πλείονασ ᾔεσαν σταδίουσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 307:1)

Synonyms

  1. worth a talent

Related

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

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