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ἀποφθεγματικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποφθεγματικός

Structure: ἀποφθεγματικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)po/fqegma

Sense

  1. dealing in apophthegms, sententious

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ τὸν λόγον ὁρῶ τὸν Λακωνικὸν βραχὺν μὲν εἶναι δοκοῦντα, μάλιστα δὲ τῶν πραγμάτων ἐφικνούμενον, καὶ τῆσ διανοίασ ἁπτόμενον τῶν ἀκροωμένων, καὶ γὰρ ὁ Λυκοῦργοσ αὐτὸσ βραχυλόγοσ τισ ἐοίκε γενέσθαι καὶ ἀποφθεγματικόσ, εἰ δεῖ τεκμαίρεσθαι τοῖσ ἀπομνημονεύμασιν οἱο͂́ν ἐστι τὸ περὶ τὰσ πολιτείασ πρὸσ τὸν ἀξιοῦντα ποιεῖν δημοκρατίαν ἐν τῇ πόλει· (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 19 2:2)

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

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