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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

  • καὶ λαβὼν τὸ νικητήριον, στέφανον ταλαντιαῖον, ἡμέρασ τρεῖσ ἐπέζησε, Τῶν δὲ ἄλλων, ὡσ Χάρησ φησί, τετταράκοντα καὶ εἷσ ἀπέθανον πιόντεσ, ἰσχυροῦ τῇ μέθῃ κρύουσ ἐπιγενομένου. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 70 1:3)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ἐξωτέροισ τόποισ καὶ μείζουσ ὀγδοήκοντα μνῶν τὴν σμύραιναν καὶ τὸν γόγγρον, ταλαντιαῖον δὲ τὸν πολύποδα, διπήχεισ δὲ τὰσ τευθίδασ καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 14:6)

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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