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χρηστήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρηστήριος χρηστήριᾱ χρηστήριον

Structure: χρηστηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xra/w3

Sense

  1. of or from an oracle, oracular, prophetic, author of oracles

Examples

  • νῦν δ’ ὡσ ὁ μάντισ φησίν, οἰωνῶν βοτήρ, ἐν ὠσὶ νωμῶν καὶ φρεσίν, πυρὸσ δίχα, χρηστηρίουσ ὄρνιθασ ἀψευδεῖ τέχνῃ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 2:6)
  • ὅμοια χέρσον καὶ θάλασσαν ἐκπερῶν, σῴζων ἐφετμὰσ Λοξίου χρηστηρίουσ, πρόσειμι δῶμα καὶ βρέτασ τὸ σόν, θεά. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:16)

Synonyms

  1. of or from an oracle

Related

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

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