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τελεσφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τελεσφόρος τελεσφόρον

Structure: τελεσφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/los, fe/rw

Sense

  1. bringing to an end, completing its round, complete, tending to accomplishment, accomplishment, of fulfilment
  2. accomplishing one's purpose
  3. bringing fruit to perfection, having the ordering

Examples

  • Οὐκ ἔσται πόρνη ἀπὸ θυγατέρων Ἰσραήλ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσταιπορνεύων ἀπὸ υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ. οὐκ ἔσται τελεσφόροσ ἀπὸ θυγατέρων Ἰσραήλ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται τελεισκόμενοσ ἀπὸ υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 23:18)
  • οὐ ταῦτα ταύτῃ Μοῖρά πω τελεσφόροσ κρᾶναι πέπρωται, μυρίαισ δὲ πημοναῖσ δύαισ τε καμφθεὶσ ὧδε δεσμὰ φυγγάνω· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 5:3)
  • τοιγάρ σφ’ Ὀλύμπου τοῦδ’ ὁ πρεσβεύων πατὴρ μνήμων τ’ Ἐρινὺσ καὶ τελεσφόροσ Δίκη κακοὺσ κακῶσ φθείρειαν, ὥσπερ ἤθελον τὸν ἄνδρα λώβαισ ἐκβαλεῖν ἀναξίωσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 5:5)
  • ἐξελθέτω τισ δωμάτων τελεσφόροσ γυνὴ τόπαρχοσ, ἄνδρα δ’ εὐπρεπέστερον· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode9)
  • ὁ δὲ Τελεσφόροσ ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα κατέπλευσεν εἰσ τὴν Πελοπόννησον, ἐπῆλθε τὰσ ὑπ’ Ἀλεξάνδρου φρουρουμένασ πόλεισ καὶ πάσασ ἠλευθέρωσε πλὴν Σικυῶνοσ καὶ Κορίνθου· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 74 2:1)

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

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