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τηλι^κόσδε , ήδε, όνδε, and τηλι^κοῦτος , αύτη, οῦτον (also τηλικοῦτος as fem., S.OC751, El.614; and -οῦτο in neut., Alex.244), strengthd. forms of τηλίκος (as ὅδε, οὗτος of ὁ, τημοῦτος of τῆμος,
A.v. οὗτος A); the latter being more common in Prose:
I. of persons, of such an age, usu. meaning so old, with a part., “τηλικόσδ᾽ ὤν” E.Alc.643, cf. Pl.Ap.34e, etc.; “γεγῶσα τηλικήδ᾽ ὅμως” E.Fr.533; “τηλικοῦτος ὤν” Ar.Eq.881, Antiph.261, Pl.Grg. 489b, etc.: without part., τηλικόσδε, τηλικοῦτος, S.OC735, El. 614; νοῦς τηλικοῦτος the mind of one so old as he is, Id.Ant. 767; “τηλικῷδε ἀνθρώπῳ” Pl.Ap.37d: pleonast., “τηλικοίδε γέροντες ἄνδρες” Id.Cri.49a (s.v.l.): with Art., “διδάσκεσθαι βαρὺ τῷ τηλικούτῳ” A.Ag.1620, v. infr. 3.
2. of degrees of youth, so young, τηλικάσδ᾽ ὁρῶν πάντων ἐρήμους girls of so tender age, S. OT1508, cf. OC1116; ἀεί σε κηδεύουσα . . τηλικοῦτος ib.751; “ὃν εἰ τηλικοῦτον ὄντα ἀπεκτείνατε . . ” Lys.14.16, cf. Pl.R.378d, Prt. 361e.
3. repeated in opp. senses, οἱ τηλικοίδε καὶ διδαξόμεσθα δὴ φρονεῖν ὑπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς τηλικοῦδε τὴν φύσιν; shall we old as we are take lessons forsooth from one so young? S.Ant.726; σὺ ἐμοῦ σοφώτερος εἶ τηλικούτου ὄντος τηλικόσδε ὤν you though so young are wiser than I though so old, Pl.Ap.25d.
II. so great, so large, = τόσος, τοσόσδε, ἐμὲ τηλικόνδε ὄντα the size I am, Id.Tht.155b; “τ. κακά” Lyc.819, cf. Ath.9.380d; τὰ τ. Pl.Ax.370c: mostly in the stronger form, ἡ τηλικαύτη [πόλις] Id.R.423b; ἀνὴρ τ. ὤν being so great, X.HG6.4.31; ἡ τ. ἀρχή, τ. ἔχθρα, Pl.Lg.755b, 928e; τ. κακά, τ. ἀγαθόν, X.Mem.2.1.5, 4.4.8; τ. [ἀδικήματα] D.18.13; “τ. τιμωρίαι” Aeschin.1.173; “πεπραγμένα τ. τὸ μέγεθος” Isoc.5.151, cf. 98; “τηλικαύτην βλάβην” PCair.Zen.378.11 (iii B.C.):—τηλικοῦτος is freq. conjoined with τοιοῦτος and τοσοῦτος, νησύδρια τοιαῦτα καὶ τ. so small, Isoc.12.70; “τ. καὶ τοιοῦτον σύστημα” Pl.Lg.686b; “τ. καὶ τοσοῦτος θεός” Id.Smp.177a; “τοσοῦτοι καὶ τ. θόρυβοι” Aeschin.1.174; “τ. καὶ τοσαῦτ᾽ ἀγαθά” D.19.24; “οἱ τ. καὶ τοιοῦτοι τῷ γένει” Men.Epit.120.
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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