Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τιμαλφής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τιμαλφής τιμαλφές

Structure: τιμαλφη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: timh/, a)lfei=n

Sense

  1. fetching a prize, costly, precious

Examples

  • τούτων δὴ πάντων ὅσα χυτὰ προσείπομεν ὕδατα, τὸ μὲν ἐκ λεπτοτάτων καὶ ὁμαλωτάτων πυκνότατον γιγνόμενον, μονοειδὲσ γένοσ, στίλβοντι καὶ ξανθῷ χρώματι κοινωθέν, τιμαλφέστατον κτῆμα χρυσὸσ ἠθημένοσ διὰ πέτρασ ἐπάγη· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 268:4)

Synonyms

  1. fetching a prize

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

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