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Ἑλλην-ικός , ή, όν,
A.Hellenic, Greek, Hdt.4.108, etc.
2. ἑλληνική (sc. γλῶσσα), ἡ, the Greek language, Apoc.9.11.
3. τὸ Ἑ. the Greeks collectively, Hdt.7.139, al.; Greek soldiery, X.An.1.4.13.
b. Greek culture, D.H.1.89: pl., Hdt.4.78.
4. τὰ Ἑ. the history of Greek affairs, Th.1.97, etc.; title of works by X., Theopomp.Hist., etc.; Greek literature, App. BC4.67.
II. like the Greeks, οὐ . . πατρῷον τόνδ᾽ ἐδεξάμην νόμον, οὐδ᾽ Ἑ. E Alc.684, cf. Ar.Ach.115, Plu.Luc.41: Comp. “-ώτερος” Id.Comp.Lyc.Num.1; “ἡ συγγνώμη τῆς τιμωρίας -ώτερον” Lib.Ep.75.4: Sup. “-ώτατος” D.19.308, D.H.1.89. Adv. -κῶς in Greek fashion, Hdt.4.108, E.IT660, Antiph.184.
III. pure Greek, οὐχ Ἑ. λέξις Orusap. Eust.859.55, cf. Ael.Dion.Fr.207, S.E.M.1.187. Adv. -κῶς in pure Greek, opp. βαρβαρικῶς, Phld.Lib.p.13 O., cf. S.E.M.1.243, Porph. Abst.3.3.
2. in Hellenistic Greek, opp. Ἀττικῶς, Moer.1, al.; but also, opp. κοινόν 'in common speech', Id.347,al.
IV. pagan, LXX 2 Ma.4.10, al., Jul.Ep.84a, Suid. s.v. Διοκλητιανός.
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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    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 115
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 308
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 660
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.108
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.78
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.139
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.97
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.4.13
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 4.10
    • Plutarch, Lucullus, 41
    • Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, 1
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.89
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