Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐξεπίτηδες

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξεπίτηδες

Sense

  1. of set purpose, with malice prepense

Examples

  • φησὶ δ’ οὖν ὅτι ἄλλωσ ἐπελθόν, οὐκ ἐξεπίτηδεσ ἤρετο, τί οὖν; (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 4:5)
  • κυλινδούμενον δὲ τοῦτο ὥσπερ ἐξεπίτηδεσ ἧκεν ἔνθα Ἥρα τε καὶ Ἀφροδίτη καὶ Ἀθηνᾶ κατεκλίνοντο. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, panope and galene, chapter 1 1:2)
  • νήσῳ ἱερεῖα τοὺσ μὲν ἐξεπίτηδεσ πλέοντασ ἐσ αὐτὴν ἐπὶ ταῖσ ναυσὶν κομίζειν, καὶ τούτων τὰ μὲν καταθύειν τὰ δὲ ἀφιέναι τῷ Ἀχιλλεῖ· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 22 1:1)
  • αὗται αἱ δέλτοι ἐξεπίτηδεσ εὑρεθεῖσαι διαφοιτῆσαι ῥᾳδίωσ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον εἰσ πᾶσαν τὴν Βιθυνίαν καὶ τὸν Πόντον ἐποίησαν, καὶ πολὺ πρὸ τῶν ἄλλων εἰσ τὸ τοῦ Ἀβώνου τεῖχοσ· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 10:2)
  • πολλάκισ δὲ ἐν τῇ δᾳδουχίᾳ καὶ τοῖσ μυστικοῖσ σκιρτήμασιν γυμνωθεὶσ ὁ μηρὸσ αὐτοῦ ἐξεπίτηδεσ χρυσοῦσ διεφάνη, δέρματοσ ὡσ εἰκὸσ ἐπιχρύσου περιτεθέντοσ καὶ πρὸσ τὴν αὐγὴν τῶν λαμπάδων ἀποστίλβοντοσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 40:1)

Synonyms

  1. of set purpose

Related

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

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