A.very tall or high, “ἐλάτη” Il.14.287 ; “Τηΰγετος” Od.6.103 : c. gen., “π. ἄλλων” Arat.250. -ης, ες, Dor. περιμάκης [α_], ες, AP6.125 (Mnasalc.) : (μῆκος):—very tall or long, “κοντός” Od.9.487 ; “ῥάβδος” 10.298; “ἱστοί” 13.107; “δοῦρα” 12.443; “ὀϊστοί” Hes.Sc.133 ; very high, “πέτρη” Il.13.63 ; “ὄρος” Od.13.183 ; very large, huge, “οἴκημα” Hdt.2.100 ; ἀνδρόσφιγγες ib.175 ; λίθους μεγάθεϊ περιμήκεας ib.108 ; “ἄγκυραι” Id.7.36 : Comp. -“μηκέστερος” Ael.Tact.2.7 : but Sup. -“μήκιστος” Plu.2.1077b.
περιμήκ-ετος , ον, poet. for sq.,
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.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
How to enter text in Greek:
