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χθιζός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χθιζός χθιζή χθιζόν

Structure: χθιζ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xqe/s

Sense

  1. of yesterday, yesterday's, yesterday's, yesterday

Examples

  • ὁ χθιζόσ με μολών ἀπατήλιοσ ἡρ́πασεν ἀνήρ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1194)
  • κἀπειδὴ παρῆσαν ἅπαντεσ, ἄρχεται λέγειν Τὴν μὲν αἰτίαν τοῦ συναγαγεῖν ὑμᾶσ ὁ χθιζὸσ οὗτοσ ξένοσ παρέσχηται· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 28:4)
  • καὶ ὁ Ζεὺσ χθιζὸσ ἒβη μετὰ δαῖτα, θεοὶ δ’ ἅμα πάντεσ ἕποντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 65 1:3)
  • οὐδὲ θεῶν μακάρων ἄγε μάρτυρασ οὐδὲ κατόπτασ, μηνύειν δ’ ἐκέλευεν ἀναγκαίησ ὑπὸ πολλῆσ, πολλὰ δέ μ’ ἠπείλησε βαλεῖν ἐσ Τάρταρον εὐρύν, οὕνεχ’ ὃ μὲν τέρεν ἄνθοσ ἔχει φιλοκυδέοσ ἥβησ, αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ χθιζὸσ γενόμην, τὰ δέ τ’ οἶδε καὶ αὐτόσ, οὔτι βοῶν ἐλατῆρι, κραταιῷ φωτί, ἐοικώσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 40:4)
  • ἤλυθε γὰρ χθιζόσ τισ ἀνὴρ ὀλοώτατοσ ὕβριν καὶ δέμασ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 23:11)

Synonyms

  1. of yesterday

Related

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

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