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ἀλλόκοτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλλόκοτος

Structure: ἀλλοκοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From a)/llos, the termin. -kotos being uncertain.

Sense

  1. of unusual nature or form, strange, monstrous, an unwelcome, utterly different from

Examples

  • τὸν Ἡρακλέα οἱ Κελτοὶ Ὄγμιον ὀνομάζουσι φωνῇ τῇ ἐπιχωρίῳ, τὸ δὲ εἶδοσ τοῦ θεοῦ πάνυ ἀλλόκοτον γράφουσι, γέρων ἐστὶν αὐτοῖσ ἐσ τὸ ἔσχατον, ἀναφαλαντίασ, πολιὸσ ἀκριβῶσ ὅσαι λοιπαὶ τῶν τριχῶν, ῥυσὸσ τὸ δέρμα καὶ διακεκαυμένοσ ἐσ τὸ μελάντατον οἱοῖ̀ εἰσιν οἱ θαλαττουργοὶ γέροντεσ· (Lucian, Hercules, 1:1)
  • ἔστι γοῦν ἐκ δύο καλῶν ἀλλόκοτον τὴν ξυνθήκην εἶναι, οἱο͂ν ἐκεῖνο τὸ προχειρότατον, ὁ ἱπποκένταυροσ· (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 12:2)
  • ^ τί οὖν αὐτῷ βούλεται τὸ ἀλλόκοτον τοῦ σχήματοσ, πῖλοσ καὶ λύρα καὶ λεοντῆ ; (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 1:5)
  • ὁ Ζεῦξισ ἐκεῖνοσ ἄριστοσ γραφέων γενόμενοσ τὰ δημώδη καὶ τὰ κοινὰ ταῦτα οὐκ ἔγραφεν, ἢ ὅσα πάνυ ὀλίγα, ἡρ́ωασ ἢ θεοὺσ ἢ πολέμουσ, ἀεὶ δὲ καινοποιεῖν ἐπειρᾶτο καὶ τι ἀλλόκοτον ἂν καὶ ξένον ἐπινοήσασ ἐπ̓ ἐκείνῳ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῆσ τέχνησ ἐπεδείκνυτο· (Lucian, Zeuxis 5:2)
  • αἰσχύνομαι δέ, ἀλλόκοτον γάρ τί ἐστι. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:6)

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

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