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τεράστιος

terastios

monstrous, prodigious

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What it meant

τεράστιος · terastios — LSJ

monstrous, prodigious, the god of portents, a monstrous birth

monstrous, prodigious, ὡς τ. τι πεποιηκώς (Bernard. rightly ὥσπερ ἀστεῖόν τι) Thphr. Char. 19.9; τ. τι πάσχεις Luc. DMort. 7[17].1; τ. τὸ πρᾶγμα ἐφαίνετο Id. Alex. 16; τ. σημεῖον Ezek. Exag. 91, cf. Sm. Nu. 13.34(33), al.; τ. ἔργον Ph. 1.544; τεράστιοι perh. = τερατουργοί in Rhetor. in Cat.Cod.Astr. 8(4).148: Ζεὺς τ. the god of portents, Luc. Tim. 41, Aristid. 2.65 J., IG 5(1).1154 (Gythium); δαίμονες τ. Hld. 2.5: τὸ τ., = τέρας, J. AJ 10.2.1; a monstrous birth, Paul.Aeg. 3.76 (pl.). Adv. -ίως E

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