Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δρομικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δρομικός δρομική δρομικόν

Structure: δρομικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dramei=n

Sense

  1. good at running, swift, fleet, the race

Examples

  • καὶ τολμήσειεν ἂν εἰπεῖν, ἵππον ἐπαινέσαι θέλων, φύσει κοῦφον ὧν ἴσμεν ζῴων καὶ δρομικόν, ὅτι Ἄκρον ἐπ’ ἀνθερίκων καρπὸν θέεν οὐδὲ κατέκλα. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 20:6)
  • ἐπεὶ δέ, ὥσπερ ἡ τῶν πλασσομένων καὶ γραφομένων Διοσκούρων ὁμοιότησ ἔχει τινὰ τοῦ πυκτικοῦ πρὸσ τὸν δρομικὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ μορφῆσ διαφοράν, οὕτω τῶν νεανίσκων ἐκείνων ἐν πολλῇ τῇ πρὸσ ἀνδρείαν καὶ σωφροσύνην, ἔτι δὲ ἐλευθεριότητα καὶ λογιότητα καὶ μεγαλοψυχίαν ἐμφερείᾳ μεγάλαι περὶ τὰ ἔργα καὶ τὰσ πολιτείασ οἱο͂ν ἐξήνθησαν καὶ διεφάνησαν ἀνομοιότητεσ, οὐ χεῖρον εἶναί μοι δοκεῖ ταύτασ προεκθέσθαι. (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 2 1:1)
  • τὸν γὰρ δίκαιον καὶ τὸν ἀνδρεῖον καὶ ὅλωσ τὸν ἀγαθόν τε καὶ τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐπαινοῦμεν διὰ τὰσ πράξεισ καὶ τὰ ἔργα, καὶ τὸν ἰσχυρὸν δὲ καὶ τὸν δρομικὸν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον τῷ ποιόν τινα πεφυκέναι καὶ ἔχειν πωσ πρὸσ ἀγαθόν τι καὶ σπουδαῖον. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 127:4)

Synonyms

  1. good at running

Related

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

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