Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ἐπικούρειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐπικούρειος Ἐπικούρειον

Structure: Ἐπικουρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Epicurean, the Epicureans

Examples

  • εἰ γάρ με, φησίν, ὦ Ἀρισταίνετε, δεύτερον ἄξεισ τουτουὶ τοῦ ἀνδρόσ, ἵνα μηδὲν ἄλλο κακὸν εἴπω, Ἐπικουρείου, ἄπειμι ὅλον σοι τὸ συμπόσιον καταλιπών καὶ ἅμα τὸν παῖδα ἐκάλει καὶ ἐξιόντι ἐῴκει. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 9:4)
  • Δανάην δὲ τὴν Λεοντίου τῆσ Ἐπικουρείου θυγατέρα ἑταιριζομένην καὶ αὐτὴν Σώφρων εἶχεν ὁ ἐπὶ τῆσ Ἐφέσου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 64 1:1)
  • "Διότιμοσ δ’ ὁ γράψασ τὰ κατ’ Ἐπικούρου βιβλία ὑπὸ Ζήνωνοσ τοῦ Ἐπικουρείου ἐξαιτηθεὶσ ἀνῃρέθη, ὥσ φησι Δημήτριοσ ὁ Μάγνησ ἐν τοῖσ Ὁμωνύμοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 9131)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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