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ταλασίφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταλασίφρων ταλασίφρονος

Structure: ταλασιφρων (Stem)

Etym.: Tla/w, frh/n

Sense

  1. patient of mind, stout-hearted

Declension

Third 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

  • ἡμετέρῳ βασιλῆϊ, θεοῖσι φίλῳ Θεοπόμπῳ, ὃν διὰ Μεσσήνην εἵλομεν εὐρύχορον, Μεσσήνην ἀγαθὴν μὲν ἀροῦν, ἀγαθὴν δὲ φυτεύειν, ἀμφ’ αὐτὴν δ’ ἐμάχοντ’ ἐννεακαίδεκ’ ἔτη νωλεμέωσ αἰεί, ταλασίφρονα θυμὸν ἔχοντεσ, αἰχμηταὶ πατέρων ἡμετέρων πατέρεσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 72)
  • ἀμφ’ αὐτῇ δ’ ἐμάχοντ’ ἐννέα καὶ δέκ’ ἔτηνωλεμέωσ, αἰεὶ ταλασίφρονα θυμὸν ἔχοντεσ,αἰχμηταὶ πατέρων ἡμετέρων πατέρεσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 4:5)
  • Μεσσήνη δὲ ἑάλω πολεμηθεῖσα ἐννεακαίδεκα ἔτη, καθάπερ καὶ Τυρταῖόσ φησιν ἀμφ’ αὐτὴν δ’ ἐμάχοντ’ ἐννεακαίδεκ’ ἔτη, νωλεμέωσ αἰεὶ ταλασίφρονα θυμὸν ἔχοντεσ, αἰχμηταὶ πατέρων ἡμετέρων πατέρεσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 3 6:8)
  • ὑπό κεν ταλασίφρονά περ δέοσ εἷλεν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 43:3)

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

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