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ὑπέραντλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέραντλος ὑπέραντλον

Structure: ὑπεραντλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quite full of water, water-logged, overcharged

Examples

  • καὶ πολὺν ἔχουσαι σφυγμὸν καὶ οἶστρον ἐν ταῖσ ἀπολαύσεσι λαμβάνουσιν αὐτούσ, διατάσεισ δὲ καὶ πληγαὶ πόρων καὶ πνευμάτων ἐναπολήψεισ διαδέχονται, μὴ περιμένουσαι τὰσ κατὰ φύσιν ἐξαγωγάσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπιπολάζουσαι τοῖσ σώμασιν ὥσπερ ὑπεράντλοισ σκάφεσι, φορτίων ἐκβολῆσ οὐ περιττωμάτων δεομένοισ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 22 5:1)

Related

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

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