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βραχυλογία

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βραχυλογία

Etym.: from braxulo/gos

Sense

  1. brevity in speech or writing

Examples

  • κέχρηται γὰρ αὐτῷ χρησίμωσ ὁ ἀνήρ, ὥσπερ καὶ τῇ τμητικῇ βραχυλογίᾳ πάντων γε μᾶλλον καὶ εὐκαιρότερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 583)
  • τούτων δὲ τῶν ἀρετῶν ἑκάστην οὐχ ἡ βραχυλογία κράτιστα δύναται ποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ πλεονασμὸσ ἐνίων ὀνομάτων, ᾧ καὶ ὁ Δημοσθένησ κέχρηται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 58 1:2)
  • εἰ οὖν μέλλεισ ἐμοὶ διαλέξεσθαι, τῷ ἑτέρῳ χρῶ τρόπῳ πρόσ με, τῇ βραχυλογίᾳ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 207:1)
  • σὺ μὲν γάρ, ὡσ λέγεται περὶ σοῦ, φῂσ δὲ καὶ αὐτόσ, καὶ ἐν μακρολογίᾳ καὶ ἐν βραχυλογίᾳ οἱο͂́σ τ’ εἶ συνουσίασ ποιεῖσθαι ‐ σοφὸσ γὰρ εἶ ‐ ἐγὼ δὲ τὰ μακρὰ ταῦτα ἀδύνατοσ, ἐπεὶ ἐβουλόμην ἂν οἱο͂́σ τ’ εἶναι. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 210:1)
  • ὅτι οὗτοσ ὁ τρόποσ ἦν τῶν παλαιῶν τῆσ φιλοσοφίασ, βραχυλογία τισ Λακωνική· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 284:2)

Synonyms

  1. brevity in speech or writing

Related

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

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