κλῖμαξ
G8025 · klimax · greek
a stairway
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G8025 G:N-F
a stairway
1. a ladder or staircase (because of its leaning aslant) , (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—; a scaling-ladder , (Thucydides); κλίμακος προσαμβάσεις (Aeschulus Tragicus):—; a ship's ladder , (Euripides) 2. a frame with cross-bars , on which persons to be tortured were tied, (Aristophanes Comicus) 3. in (Sophocles Tragicus), κλίμακες ἀμφίπλεκτοι intertwining ladders , to express the entanglement of the limbs of wrestlers. 4. a climax , i. e. a gradual ascent from weaker expressions to stronger, Lat. gradatio , as Cicero's abiit, evasit, erupit. (ML)
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