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δεσποτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεσποτικός

Structure: δεσποτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: despo/ths

Sense

  1. of or for a master, that befall one's master
  2. inclined to tyranny, despotic

Examples

  • πολλαὶ δὲ καὶ διὰ τὸ ἄγαν δεσποτικὰσ εἶναι τὰσ ὀλιγαρχίασ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ τινῶν δυσχερανάντων κατελύθησαν, ὥσπερ ἡ ἐν Κνίδῳ καὶ ἡ ἐν Χίῳ ὀλιγαρχία. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 118:1)
  • καὶ οὐδὲ τοὺσ πεμφθέντασ ὑπὸ τῆσ βουλῆσ πρέσβεισ φέροντάσ σοι τῶν τε ἐγκλημάτων ἄφεσιν καὶ κάθοδον ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα φίλουσ καὶ ἀγαθοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἐλθόντασ ἐνετράπησ, οὐδὲ τοὺσ ἱερεῖσ, οὓσ τὸ τελευταῖον ἔπεμψεν ἡ πόλισ, ἱερὰ στέμματα θεῶν ἔχοντασ καὶ προτείνοντασ ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτουσ ἀπήλασασ, αὐθάδεισ καὶ δεσποτικὰσ ὡσ κεκρατημένοισ ἀποκρίσεισ δούσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 50 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a master

Related

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

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