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ἔκδικος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκδικος ἔκδικον

Structure: ἐκδικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: di/kh

Sense

  1. without law, lawless, unjust
  2. maintaining the right, avenging

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ φιλοῦσιν ἄνδρασ ἐκδίκουσ τρέφειν, οὐδ’ ἄν σ’ ἐπαινέσειαν, εἰ πυθοίατο συλῶντα τἀμὰ καὶ τὰ τῶν θεῶν, βίᾳ ἄγοντα φωτῶν ἀθλίων ἱκτήρια. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 4:9)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν γύναιον τοῦ Πομπηίου καὶ οἱ φίλοι ταῦτα μακρόθεν ὁρῶντεσ ἀνῴμωζόν τε καὶ χεῖρασ ἐσ θεοὺσ ἐκδίκουσ σπονδῶν ἀνίσχοντεσ ἀπέπλεον τάχιστα ὡσ ἐκ πολεμίασ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 12 3:8)

Synonyms

  1. without law

Related

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

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