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ἀκριβής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκριβής ἀκριβές

Structure: ἀκριβη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. exact, accurate, precise, made or done to a nicety
  2. exact, precise, strict, consummate, painfully exact, over-nice, precise, curious, to a nicety, precisely
  3. parsimonious, frugal

Examples

  • πῶσ οὖν γέρων ὢν κἀπιλήσμων καὶ βραδὺσ λόγων ἀκριβῶν σχινδαλάμουσ μαθήσομαι; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 4:32)
  • ἐνταῦθα δή φημι δεῖν, κἂν εἴ τισ ἐντυχὼν τῇ παραινέσει τῶν πάνυ ἀκριβῶν αἰτιάσεται, μηδὲ τῶν νεωτέρων καὶ ὀλίγον πρὸ ἡμῶν ἀπείρωσ ἔχειν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 22:1)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὁρῶ σε, αὐτοκράτορ, ἐντυγχάνοντα τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ ἀνδράσι καὶσυνιέντα φρονίμων καὶ ἀκριβῶν λόγων, φημὶ δὴ σαφῶσ ἄνδρα εἶναι μακάριον, τὸν μεγίστην μὲν ἔχοντα δύναμιν μετὰ τοὺσ θεούσ, κάλλιστα δὲ τῷ δύνασθαι χρώμενον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 3:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἂν εἰή παγγέλοιον, εἰ δι’ ἑτέρων μὲν ἀκριβῶν ἴσασι τοὺσ ἀκριβεῖσ, αὐτοὶ δ’ ἀγνοοῦσι, καὶ τοὺσ μὲν κρίνοντασ αὐτῶν ἀντικρίνουσιν αὐτοὶ βελτίουσ ἑαυτῶν εἶναι, τοὺσ δ’ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τὰ κράτιστα δεικνύντασ οὐ θαυμάσονται, οἳ μετὰ τῆσ ἐπιστήμησ καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ πείθειν οὖσαν κέκτηνται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 10:14)
  • μὴ ὄντων γὰρ ἀκριβῶν ὁρ́ων, καθάπερ Κολυττοῦ καὶ Μελίτησ, οἱο͂ν στηλῶν ἢ περιβόλων, τοῦτο μὲν ἔχειν φάναι ἡμᾶσ ὅτι τουτὶ μέν ἐστι Κολυττὸσ τουτὶ δὲ Μελίτη, τοὺσ ὁρ́ουσ δὲ μὴ ἔχειν εἰπεῖν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 4 14:2)

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

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