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δεξιόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεξιόομαι

Structure: δεξιό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: decia/

Sense

  1. to greet with the right hand, welcome, greet, to raise one's right hand, pay honour to, pledging one in

Examples

  • οὗτοι πάντεσ, ὦ Ῥαδάμανθυ, πρὸσ τοῦ ἀλιτηρίου τεθνᾶσιν, οἱ μὲν γυναικῶν ἕνεκα εὐμόρφων ἐπιβουλευθέντεσ, οἱ δὲ υἱέων ἀπαγομένων πρὸσ ὕβριν ἀγανακτήσαντεσ, οἱ δὲ ὅτι ἐπλούτουν, οἱ δὲ ὅτι ἦσαν δεξιοὶ καὶ σώφρονεσ καὶ οὐδαμοῦ ἠρέσκοντο τοῖσ δρωμένοισ. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 26:10)
  • ὦ ξένε, πολλοὶ μὲν καὶ ἄλλοι χρηστοὶ καὶ δεξιοὶ ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν, καὶ οὐκ αν ἀλλαχόθι τοσούτουσ εὑρ́οισ ἄνδρασ ἀγαθούσ, δύο δὲ μάλιστά ἐστον ἡμῖν ἄνδρε ἀρίστω, γένει μὲν καὶ ἀξιώματι πολὺ προὔχοντοσ ἁπάντων, παιδείᾳ δὲ καὶ λόγων δυνάμει τῇ Ἀττικῇ δεκάδι παραβάλλοισ ἄν· (Lucian, Scytha 21:2)
  • ἐπίπονοί γ’ οἱ δεξιοί. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees1)
  • οὐδαμῶσ γ’, ἐπεὶ λόγοι διαλλάξουσιν αὐτὰ δεξιοί· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, lyric 3:5)
  • ῥᾷον δ’ οἱ πολλοὶ κακοῦργοι φησίν ὄντεσ δεξιοὶ κέκληνται ἢ ἀμαθεῖσ ἀγαθοί, καὶ τῷ μὲν αἰσχύνονται, ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ ἀγάλλονται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 32 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to greet with the right hand

Derived

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

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