Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἡλίκος

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2. of age, as old as, “ἄνδρα . . ἡλίκον Θουκυδίδην” Ar. Ach.703; τοῖσιν ἡλίκοισι νῷν, = τηλίκοις ἡλίκοι νώ, Id.Ec.465; οἱ ἡλίκοι ἐγώ,= τηλίκοι ἡλίκοι ἐγώ, Pl.La.180d: rare in Trag., ὁρᾷς μὲν ἡμᾶς, ἡλίκοι . . of what various ages . . , S.OT15.

3. in indirect questions, how big, how great, Thphr.Char.23.2, Crates Theb.18, etc.; “ὁρῶν ἡ. ἐστὶ Φίλιππος” D.6.6, cf. Pl.Chrm.154b; freq. in expressions of wonder, θαυμάσι᾽ ἡλίκα extraordinarily great, D.19.24; “θαυμαστὸν ἡλίκον” Id.24.122; “μέγιστα ἡλίκα” Luc.Merc.Cond.13; also, how small, “ἰδοὺ ἡλίκον πῦρ ἡλίκην ὕλην ἀνάπτει” Ep.Jac.3.5; “ἂν ἴδω γὰρ ἡλίκον ἰχθὺν ὅσου τιμῶσι” Antiph.166.6, cf. Luc.Herm.5.

4. in exclamations, “ἡλίκον λαλεῖς” Men.Sam.40. (Compd. of yo-, relat. Pron. stem (cf. ὅς), and -āli- (cf. ἧλιξ), with suffix -κο-; cf. πηλίκος, τηλίκος.)

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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- Demosthenes, Olynthiac 1, 9
- Demosthenes, Philippic 2, 6
- Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 24
- Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 122
- Demosthenes, Against Midias, 147
- Plato, Charmides, 154b
- Plato, Laches, 180d
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 15
- Theophrastus, Characters, 23.2
- Aristophanes, Acharnians, 703
- New Testament, James, 3.5
- Lucian, De mercede, 13
- Lucian, Hermotimus, 5

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