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ὑπεραλγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπεραλγής ὑπεραλγές

Structure: ὑπεραλγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. exceeding grievous

Examples

  • ἆρ’ ἀχνύμενοσ τάλιδοσ ἥκει μόρον Ἀντιγόνησ, ἀπάτησ λεχέων ὑπεραλγῶν; (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, anapests2)
  • ἐφ’ οἷσ ὁ Μασσανάσσησ ὑπεραλγῶν συνετίθετο καὶ ὅδε ἐν Ἰβηρίᾳ τῷ Σκιπίωνι, λανθάνων, ὡσ ᾤετο, Ἀσδρούβαν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 5:6)

Synonyms

  1. exceeding grievous

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

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