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τηλεμάχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τηλεμάχος τηλεμάχον

Structure: τηλεμαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. fighting from afar.

Examples

  • ὡσ τῷ Τηλεμάχῳ ἐκκλησιάζοντι, ἀλλὰ τῶν Ἀκταίωνοσ πολὺ πλείονεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 2 1:2)
  • τῷ γοῦν Τηλεμάχῳ πέπλον τινὰ δωρουμένη φησί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 17 2:3)
  • "δῶκε δὲ Τηλεμάχῳ καλὸν δέπασ ἀμφικύπελλον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 246)
  • Ὀδυσσεὺσ δὲ μαθὼν τὰ κατὰ τὴν οἰκίαν, ὡσ ἐπαίτησ πρὸσ Εὔμαιον οἰκέτην ἀφικνεῖται, καὶ Τηλεμάχῳ ἀναγνωρίζεται, καὶ παραγίνεται εἰσ τὴν πόλιν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 7 32:1)
  • μηδενὸσ δὲ τεῖναι δυναμένου, δεξάμενοσ Ὀδυσσεὺσ τοὺσ μνηστῆρασ κατετόξευσε σὺν Εὐμαίῳ καὶ Φιλοιτίῳ καὶ Τηλεμάχῳ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 7 33:2)

Synonyms

  1. fighting from afar

Related

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

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