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ἀλαζόνευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλαζόνευμα

Structure: ἀλαζονευματ (Stem)

Etym.: from a)lazoneu/omai

Sense

  1. an imposture, piece of quackery

Examples

  • τῶν ἀλαζονευμάτων. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 3:17)
  • τῶν ἀλαζονευμάτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 6 3:2)
  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ καὶ τοῖσ δικαστηρίοισ πολλάκισ ἀφέμενοι τῶν εἰσ αὐτὸ τὸ πρᾶγμα λόγων, ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀπάτησ καὶ τῶν ἀλαζονευμάτων ὑπάγεσθε, καὶ πάντων ἀδικώτατον ἔθοσ εἰσ τοὺσ ἀγῶνασ παραδέχεσθε· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1784)

Synonyms

  1. an imposture

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

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