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αἰσχροκέρδεια

Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰσχροκέρδεια

Etym.: ke/rdos

Sense

  1. base covetousness

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἡ ἐκ τοῦ ἄλλου βίου ἔμφυτοσ αἰσχροκέρδεια καὶ πονηρία ταῦτ’ εἰσ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῷ τέτροφε. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 131:3)
  • πολὺ γὰρ ηὔξηται ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἡ ἀδικία τε καὶ αἰσχροκέρδεια· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 14 3:4)
  • κοινὸν δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ ἡ αἰσχροκέρδεια φαίνεται· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 38:2)
  • πολὺ γὰρ ηὔξηται ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἡ ἀδικία τε καὶ αἰσχροκέρδεια. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 8 26:3)

Related

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

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