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ἡλίκος

ἡλίκος

Ancient Greek

Adjective

ἡλῐ́κος (hēlíkos) m (feminine ἡλῐ́κη, neuter ἡλῐ́κον); first/second declension

  1. (relative adjective) as big or great as, as old as
    • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 13
      ἀλλ᾽ ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἀδικοῦντά μ᾽ ἑώρα τὴν πόλιν, οὖσί γε τηλικούτοις ἡλίκα νῦν ἐτραγῴδει καὶ διεξῄει, ...
      But against whatever wrongs he saw me commit against the city, if they really are as great as he just now dramatized and recounted in detail, ...
  2. (indirect interrogative adjective) how big; extraordinarily big or small
  3. (exclamatory adjective) how big!

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