Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τριακονταετής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριακονταετής τριακονταετές

Structure: τριακονταετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. thirty years old, the men of thirty years
  2. of or for thirty years

Examples

  • χρόνον δὲ τριακονταετῆ μένειν αὐτὰσ ἀναγκαῖον ἁγνὰσ γάμων θυηπολούσασ τε καὶ τἆλλα θρησκευούσασ κατὰ νόμον, ἐν ᾧ δέκα μὲν ἔτη μανθάνειν αὐτὰσ ἔδει, δέκα δ’ ἐπιτελεῖν τὰ ἱερά, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ δέκα διδάσκειν ἑτέρασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 67 3:1)
  • διελθὼν δὲ τριακονταετῆ χρόνον ἔγραψε μὲν βύβλουσ δέκα, τὴν δὲ τελευταίαν κατέπαυσε τῆσ συντάξεωσ εἰσ τὴν ὑπὸ τοῦ Φιλομήλου τοῦ Φωκέωσ κατάληψιν τοῦ ἐν Δελφοῖσ ἱεροῦ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 116 21:2)

Synonyms

  1. thirty years old

  2. of or for thirty years

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

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