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δραστήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δραστήριος δραστήριον

Structure: δραστηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dra/w

Sense

  1. vigorous, active, efficacious, activity, energy
  2. audacious

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ τοὺσ πάνυ βασκαίνοντασ τῶν πολιτῶν καὶ πάντα βουλομένουσ εὐτυχίᾳ τινὶ μᾶλλον ἢ δι’ ἀρετὴν κατωρθῶσθαι, τότ’ ἠνάγκαζον αἱ πράξεισ τῇ δεινότητι καὶ τῷ δραστηρίῳ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἀποδιδόναι τὴν δόξαν. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 36 1:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸν Ιὤσηπον ὁρῶν αὐτοῦ [σφόδρα] χαίροντα τῷ δραστηρίῳ πείθει πρῶτον μὲν αὐτῷ πιστεῦσαι τὸ τεῖχοσ ἀνοικοδομῆσαι τῆσ πατρίδοσ, ἐν ᾧ πολλὰ παρὰ τῶν πλουσίων ἐκέρδανεν· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 744:2)

Synonyms

  1. audacious

Related

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

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