towering
From LSJ
Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
P. and V. ὑψηλός, V. ὑψίπυργος, ὀρθόκρανος, ὑψαύχην, ὑψιγέννητος; see high.
in a towering passion: use adj., P. περιοργής.
towering to the stars: V. ἀστρογείτων.
so that they left in flight the towering steep of the battlements: V. ὥστ' ἐπάλξεων λιπεῖν ἐρίπνας φυγάδας (Euripides, Phoenissae 1167).
