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ἀμφισβήτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφισβήτησις

Structure: ἀμφισβητησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)mfisbhte/w

Sense

  1. a dispute, controversy, debate, question

Examples

  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ γεγράφθαι τοὺσ νόμουσ ἁπλῶσ μηδὲ σαφῶσ, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ὁ τῶν κλήρων καὶ ἐπικλήρων, ἀνάγκη πολλὰσ ἀμφισβητήσεισ γίγνεσθαι, καὶ πάντα βραβεύειν καὶ τὰ κοινὰ καὶ τὰ ἴδια τὸ δικαστήριον. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 9 2:1)
  • διαδικάζει δὲ καὶ τοῖσ γένεσι καὶ τοῖσ ἱερεῦσι τὰσ ἀμφισβητήσεισ τὰσ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἱερῶν ἁπάσασ οὗτοσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 57 2:2)
  • ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἀμφισβητήσεισ ἔχοντα πολλὰσ καὶ τὸ κινεῖν διὰ μακροτέρων καὶ τὸ πιστοῦσθαι μειρακιώδουσ ἔστι φιλονεικίασ. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 8 10:2)
  • ἐν μὲν οὖν ταῖσ μικραῖσ ὑπεροχαῖσ εἰκότωσ γίνονται ἀμφισβητήσεισ τὸ γὰρ μικρὸν ἐνιαχοῦ οὐδὲν ἰσχύει, ὥσπερ ἐν ξύλου σταθμῷ, ἀλλ’ ἐν χρυσίῳ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 103:3)
  • καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἀνεκρίθησαν πρὸσ τῷ ἄρχοντι ἅπασαι αἱ ἀμφισβητήσεισ καὶ ἔδει ἀγωνίζεσθαι ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ, ἀπαράσκευοι ἦμεν τὸ παράπαν πρὸσ τὸ ἤδη ἀγωνίζεσθαι ἐγὼ καὶ Ὀλυμπιόδωροσ οὑτοσὶ διὰ τὸ ἐξαίφνησ ἐπιπεπτωκέναι ἡμῖν πολλοὺσ τοὺσ ἀμφισβητοῦντασ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 27:1)

Synonyms

  1. a dispute

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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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