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βαναυσικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βαναυσικός

Structure: βαναυσικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ba/nausos

Sense

  1. of or for mechanics, a mere mechanical

Examples

  • καὶ ἐν ἐνίαισ μὲν τῶν πόλεων, μάλιστα δὲ ἐν ταῖσ εὐπολέμοισ δοκούσαισ εἶναι, οὐδ’ ἔξεστι τῶν πολιτῶν οὐδενὶ βαναυσικὰσ τέχνασ ἐργάζεσθαι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 4:3)
  • πάσασ μὲν οὖν τὰσ ἐπιστήμασ οὔτε μαθεῖν οἱο͂́ν τε ἡμῖν ἐδόκει, συναπεδοκιμάζομέν τε ταῖσ πόλεσι τὰσ βαναυσικὰσ καλουμένασ τέχνασ, ὅτι καὶ τὰ σώματα καταλυμαίνεσθαι δοκοῦσι καὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ καταγνύουσι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 6 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for mechanics

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

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