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δοξοκόπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δοξοκόπος δοξοκόπον

Structure: δοξοκοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/ptw

Sense

  1. thirsting for popularity.

Examples

  • τοιγαροῦν ἄνθρωποι παρίασι καὶ ἀνόητοι καὶ δοξοκόποι καὶ πρὸσ τὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήθουσθόρυβον κεχηνότεσ, οὐδὲν ἀπὸ γνώμησ ἀσφαλοῦσ οὐδὲ συνέντεσ λέγουσιν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐν σκότει βαδίζοντεσ κατὰ τὸν κρότον ἀεὶ καὶ τὴν βοὴν φέρονται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 40:2)

Synonyms

  1. thirsting for popularity

Related

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

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