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ταλάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταλάσιος ταλάσιον

Structure: ταλασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from talasi/a

Sense

  1. of or for wool-spinning

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἀπαντῶντεσ ἔνιοι τῶν κρειττόνων ἐπεχείρουν ἀφαιρεῖσθαι, βοᾶν τοὺσ ἄγοντασ, ὡσ Ταλασίῳ κομίζοιεν αὐτήν, ἀνδρὶ νέῳ μέν, εὐδοκίμῳ δὲ καὶ χρηστῷ· (Plutarch, chapter 15 1:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἡρ́παζον οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι τὰσ τῶν Σαβίνων θυγατέρασ ἐλθούσασ ἐπὶ θέαν, ἐκομίζετο τῷ Ταλασίῳ παρθένοσ ἐκπρεπὴσ τὴν ὄψιν ὑπὸ δημοτικῶν τινων καὶ πελατῶν τοῦ Ταλασίου, βοώντων ὑπὲρ ἀσφαλείασ καὶ τοῦ μηδένα πελάζειν μηδ’ ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι τῆσ παιδόσ, ὡσ Ταλασίῳ γυνὴ φέροιτο. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 31 1:7)
  • θυγατέρασ ἐλθούσασ ἐπὶ θέαν, ἐκομίζετο τῷ Ταλασίῳ παρθένοσ ἐκπρεπὴσ τὴν ὄψιν ὑπὸ δημοτικῶν τινων καὶ πελατῶν τοῦ Ταλασίου, βοώντων ὑπὲρ ἀσφαλείασ καὶ τοῦ μηδένα πελάζειν μηδ’ ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι τῆσ παιδόσ, ὡσ Ταλασίῳ γυνὴ φέροιτο. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 31 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for wool-spinning

Related

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

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