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βραχυλόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βραχυλόγος βραχυλόγη βραχυλόγον

Structure: βραχυλογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. short in speech, of few words

Examples

  • τῶν δὲ Γυμνοσοφιστῶν τοὺσ μάλιστα τὸν Σάββαν ἀναπείσαντασ ἀποστῆναι καὶ κακὰ πλεῖστα τοῖσ Μακεδόσι παρασχόντασ λαβὼν δέκα, δεινοὺσ δοκοῦντασ εἶναι περὶ τὰσ ἀποκρίσεισ καὶ βραχυλόγουσ, ἐρωτήματα προὔβαλεν αὐτοῖσ ἄπορα, φήσασ ἀποκτενεῖν τὸν μὴ ὀρθῶσ ἀποκρινάμενον πρῶτον, εἶτα ἐφεξῆσ οὕτω τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἕνα δὲ τὸν πρεσβύτατον ἐκέλευσε κρίνειν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 64 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. short in speech

Related

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

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