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ἀνθρώπ-ειος , α, ον, Ion. ἀνθρωπ-ήϊος , η, ον, (ος, ον Luc.Asin.46):—
A.human, opp. θεῖος, Heraclit.78; “τὰ-ήϊα” Democr. 37; “ἀνθρωπηΐη φωνή” Hdt.2.55; “ἡ ἀ. φύσις” Id.3.65, al.; “ἀ. σῶμα” Canthar.3D., “ἀ τι παθεῖν” IG5(1).1208.52 (Gythium); “ἀ. πήματα” such as man is subject to, A.Pers.706; ἀ. ψόγος reproach of men, Id.Ag.937; “τέχνη ἀ.” Th.2.47; ἀνθρωπήϊα πρήγματα human affairs, Hdt.1.32, cf. Pl.Prm.134e; “τὰ ἀ.” A.Fr.159, Pl.Phd.89e; “ἅπαντα τἀ.” S.Aj.132, Antiph.240b, etc.; τὸ ἀ. mankind, human nature, “πέφυκε τὸ ἀ. ἄρχειν τοῦ εἴκοντος” Th.4.61, cf. 5.105.
2. human, suited to man, within man's powers, “ἡ ἀ. εὐδαιμονίη” Hdt.1.5; ἀδύνατον καὶ οὐκ ἀ. not for man to attempt, Pl.Prt.344c; “ὅσα γε τἀ.” in all human probability, Id.Cri.47a; κατὰ τὸ ἀ. (v.l. -πινον) Th.1.22.
3. human, opp. mythical, “ἡ ἀ. λεγομένη γενεή” Hdt.3.122.
4. ἀνθρωπείους ἡμέρας: τὰς ἀποφράδας (Rhod.), Hsch.
II. Adv. “-ως” by human means, in all human probability, Th.5.103; ἀ. φράζειν to speak as befits a man, Ar.Ra.1058.—Said to be the correct Attic form by Moer.26.
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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