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μέγᾰς, μεγάλη [ᾰ], μέγα [ᾰ],
genitive μεγάλου, ης, ου, dative μεγάλῳ, ῃ, ῳ, accusative μέγᾰν, μεγάλην, μέγα [ᾰ]; dual μεγάλω, α, w; plural μεγάλοι, μεγάλαι, μεγάλα, etc.: the stem μεγάλο- is never used in singular nominative and accusative masculine and neuter, and only once in vocative masculine,
__A ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 822 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.I big, of bodily size: frequently of stature, εἶδος.. μ. ἦν ὁράασθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.4; κεῖτο μ. μεγαλωστί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.776; ἠΰς τε μ. τε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9. 508 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φῶτα μέγαν καὶ καλόν[[ [prev. work] 513; καλή τε μεγάλη τε 15.418; κάρτα μεγάλη καὶ εὐειδής 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσιν τίν᾽ εἶχε φράζ; Answ. μέγας [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 742. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.b full-grown, of age as shown by stature, νῦν δ᾽ ὅτε δὴ μ. εἰμί [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.314; μήτε μέγαν μήτ᾽ οὖν νεαρῶν τινα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 358 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; later, elder of two persons of the same name, Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 305 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Σκιπίων ὁ μ. [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.35.9. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__A.I.c of animals, μ. ἵπποι, βοῦς, σῦς, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.839, 18.559, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.439; αἰετός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).50. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __A.I.2 generally, vast, high, οὐρανός, ὄρος, πύργος, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.497, 16.297, 6.386 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; wide, πέλαγος, λαῖτμα θαλάσσης, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.179, 5.174 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; long, ἠϊών, αἰγιαλός, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.31, 2.210: sometimes opposed to ὀλίγος, κῦμα οὔτε μέγ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ὀ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.94 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but usually opposed to μικρός or σμικρός, πρὸς ἑαυτὸ ἕκαστον καὶ μ. καὶ σμικρόν [[ 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 3; τὸ ἄπειρον ἐκ μεγάλου καὶ μικροῦ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 987b26, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II of quality or degree, great, mighty, frequently epithet of gods, ὁ μ. Ζεύς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 1052 (Lyric poetry), etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μεγάλα θεά, of Demeter and Persephone, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 683 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θεοὶ μεγάλοι, of the Cabiri, [[ “IG” 12(8).71 (from Imbros), etc.] Refs]; Μήτηρ μ., of Cybele, [[ “SIG” 1014.83 (Erythrae, 3rd c.BC), 1138.3 (Delos, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Μήτηρ θεῶν μ. [[ “OGI” 540.6 (from Pessinus), etc.] Refs]; Ἴσιδος μ. μητρὸς θεῶν [[ “PStrassb.” 81.14 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; μ. ἡ Ἄρτεμις Ἐφεσίων [[ NT.Act.19.28 ] NT]; τίς θεὸς μ. ὡς ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶ; [[ LXX.Psa.76(77).13; ὁ μ. θεός NT.Tit.2.13 ] LXX+NT]; of men, μ. ἠδὲ κραταιός [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.382; ὀλίγος καὶ μ. 7th c.BC: Callinus Epicus 1.17, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μέγας ηὐξήθη rose to greatness, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.5; ἤρθη μ. [prev. work]8; βασιλεὺς ὁ μ.] Refs 4th c.BC+], i. e. the King of Persia, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.188, etc. (θεῶν β. ὁ μ., of Zeus, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.34); βασιλεὺς μ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 24 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; as a title of special monarchs, Ἀρδιαῖος ὁ μ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 615c; ὁ μ. Ἀλέξανδρος 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 1.3d; ὁ μ. ἐπικληθεὶς Ἀντίοχος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.2.7, etc.; μ. φίλος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 549; πλούτῳ τε κἀνδρείᾳ μ. [prev. author] “Tr.” 674; ἐπὶ μέγα ἦλθεν ἰσχύος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.2 strong, of the elements, etc., ἄνεμος, λαῖλαψ, Ζέφυρος, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.200, 12.408, 14.458 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of properties, passions, qualities, feelings, etc., of men, θάρσος, πένθος, ποθή, etc.,[[ 9.381, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.254, 11.471, etc.; ἀρετή 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.193, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.5; θυμός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.496, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 702; κλέος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.446; ἄχος 9.9; πυρετός NT.Luke.4.38 (incorrect _accusative_ to 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.275)] NT+8th c.BC+]; ἡ μ. νοῦσος epilepsy, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 6.6.5, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(2).341. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.3 of sounds, great, loud, ἀλαλητός, ἰαχή, πάταγος, ὀρυμαγδός, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.138, 15.384, 21.9, 256 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θόρυβοι, κωκυτός, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 142 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1176; οὐκ ἔστι ὅκως τι νεῖκος ἔσται ἢ μέγα ἢ σμικρόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.62; μὴ φώνει μέγα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 574. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.4 generally, great, mighty, ὅρκος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.113 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὄλβος, τιμά, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.56, “P.” 4.148 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. λόγος, μῦθος, a great story, rumour, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 732, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 226 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐρώτημα a big, i. e. difficult, question, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 275d, “Hp.Ma.” 287b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; weighty, important, τόδε μεῖζον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.291 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μέγα ποιέεσθαί τι to esteem of great importance, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.42, compare 9.111; μέγα γενέσθαι εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.6; μ. ὑπάρχειν πρός τι [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.3.4; μέγα διαφέρειν εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 78o c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἂν εἴη παρὰ μέγα τὸ δικολογεῖν not of great importance, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.85 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ δὲ μέγιστον and what is most important, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.70, compare 1.142 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ μέγιστοι καιροί the most pressing emergencies, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.44 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μ. ὠνησάμενοι χρημάτων for large sums, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.50.3, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__A.II.5 with a bad sense, over-great, μέγα εἰπεῖν to speak big, and so provoke divine wrath, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.288; λίην μέγα εἶπες 3.227, 16.243; μέγα ἔργον 3.261, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.64; ἔργων μ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1546 (_anapaest meter_); ὠμὸν τὸ βούλευμα καὶ μ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.36 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔπος μ., μ. λόγοι, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 423 (Lyric poetry), “Ant.” 1350 (_anapaest meter_); μ. γλῶσσα [prev. work] 127 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδὲν μέγ᾽ εἴπῃς [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 386; μὴ μέγα λέγε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 95b; μὴ μεγάλα λίαν λέγε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 835; μέγα φρονεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1078, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 6; μεγάλα φρονεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 988 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μεγάλα, μεῖζον ἢ δικαίως πνεῖν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 189, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 376 (Lyric poetry); μέγα τι παθεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.17; μὴ μέγα λέγων μεῖζον πάθῃς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1244. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.6 of style. impressive, [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 278 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μεῖζον more striking, [[[prev. work] 103. ] Refs]
__A.II.7 of days, long, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.714. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B adverb μεγάλως [ᾰ] greatly, mightily, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.432, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 429, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.16, 30, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.10, 1st c.BC: Parthenius Mythographus 28.1, etc.; strengthened, μάλα μ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.723; δμαθέντες μ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 907 (Lyric poetry); with _adjectives_, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.4, 7.190. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II more frequently neuter singular μέγα as adverb, very much, exceedingly, μ. χαῖρε all hail!, see l. for μάλα in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.402 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially with Verbs expressing strong feeling, μ. κεν κεχαροίατο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.256; μ. κήδεται 2.27, etc.: with Verbs expressing power, might, μ. πάντων.. κρατέει 1.78; ὃς μ. πάντων.. ἤνασσε 10.32; πατρὸς μ. δυναμένοιο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.276, compare 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 15.1, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 950 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1358 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 141, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 366a; μ. δύνασθαι παρά τινι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.29; πλουτέειν μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; or those expressing sound, loudly, μ. ἰάχειν, ἀῧσαι, βοῆσαι, εὔξασθαι, ἀμβῶσαι, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.333, 14.147, 17.334, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.239, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8 (also _plural_, μεγάλ᾽ εὔχετο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.450 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. αὐδήσαντος, μ. ἤπυεν, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.505, 9.399): strengthened, μάλα μ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.321; μ. δ᾽ ἔβραχε φήγινος ἄξων 5.838, etc.: so in Trag. with all kinds of Verbs, μ. στένειν, σθένειν, χλίειν, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 711 (Lyric poetry), 938, “Ch.” 137 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: also in plural, μεγάλα.. δυστυχεῖς [[ [prev. author] “Eu.” 791 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs]
__B.II.2 of Space, far, μέγα προθορών [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.363 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄνευθε μέγα far away,[[ 22.88; οὐκ ἂν μέγα τι τῆς ἀληθείας παρεξέλθοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 66b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.3 with adjectives, as μέγ᾽ ἔξοχος, μέγα νήπιος, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.480, 16.46 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. νήπιε Oracle texts cited in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85; μ. πλούσιος [prev. author] 1.32, 7.190; ὦ μέγ᾽ εὔδαιμον κόρη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 647 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with comparative and superlative, by far, μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονες, ἄριστος, φέρτατος, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.405, 2.82, 16.21. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__C degrees of Comparison (regular μεγαλώτερος, -ώτατος late, [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 780.1, 2): ] Refs]
__C.1 comparative μείζων, ον, genitive ονος, Epic dialect, Attic dialect (also Delph., [[ “SIG” 246 H 260 (4th c.BC))] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect, [[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus ] Refs 4th c.AD+], Doric dialect, Aeolic dialect μέζων, ον, [[ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 25, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 44, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.26, “IG” 7.235.16 (from Oropus), 5(2).3.18 (from Tegea), 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 62 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (also early Attic dialect, [[ “IG” 12.22.65, but [με] ίζων [prev. work]6.93, by analogy of ὀλείζων [prev. work]76,95)] Refs]; dative plural μεζόνεσσι [[ Diotogenes Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.7.62: written μέσδων in 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 7.6, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 19 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]: compare μέττον· μεῖζον, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus (uncertain); later μειζότερος NT.3JOhn.4 ] NT+5th c.AD+] (used as title, elder, [[ POxy. 943.3 (6th c.AD), etc.)] Refs 6th c.AD+]; μειζονώτερος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 434 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—greater, longer, taller, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.168, 9.202, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently also, too great, γέρας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 231a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Μηνόφιλος μείζων M. the elder, [[ Ostr.Bodl. see C 2 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; as title, μειζων κώμης headman of a village, [[ “POxy.” 1626.5 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+], etc.: generally, the higher authority, [[ PLond. 2.214.22 (3rd c.AD), “POxy.” 1204.17 (_plural_, 3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; οὔτε μεῖζον οὔτε ἔλαττον, a strong form of denial, nothing whatever, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 4; οὐδαμὰ προὔφηνεν οὔτε μείζον᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἐλάττονα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 324 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb μειζόνως [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1121, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.130, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 13.3, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.21, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect μεζόνως [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.128, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 4.80, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: neuter as adverb, μεῖζον σθένειν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 456, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 216; μ. ἰσχύειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 3.28; ἐπὶ μ. ἔρχεται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 259. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__C.2 superlative μέγιστος, η, ον, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.412, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: neuter as adverb, μέγιστον ἴσχυσε [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 502 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δυνάμενος μ., with genitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.5, 9.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with another superlative, μέγιστον ἐχθίστη [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1323: in _plural_, χαῖρ᾽ ὡς μέγιστα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 462; θάλλει μ. [prev. author] “OC” 700 (Lyric poetry); τὰ μέγιστ᾽ ἐτιμάθης [prev. author] “OT” 1203 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐς μέγιστον[[ [prev. work] 521; ἐς τὰ μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.111 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—late superlative μεγιστότατος [[ “PLond.” 1.130.49 (1st-2nd c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]. (Cf. Sanskrit majmán- 'greatness', Latin magnus, Gothic mikils 'great'.)
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