Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔκπληξις

; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκπληξις ἔκπληξεως

Etym.: e)kplh/ssw

Sense

  1. consternation, terror caused by

Examples

  • ἔκπληξισ ἂν γένοιτο· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode35)
  • κἀμοὶ γὰρ οὐδὲν ἧσσον ἔκπληξισ πάρα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 5:2)
  • ἦν τε ἐν τῷ παραυτίκα οὐδεμιᾶσ δὴ τῶν ξυμπασῶν ἐλάσσων ἔκπληξισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 26 6:5)
  • τοὺσ δ’ ἔλαβεν ἔκπληξισ καὶ φόβοσ οὔτι μέτριοσ. (Flavius Josephus, 178:1)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν Θηβαῖοι μέγα φρονοῦντεσ ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ἐπεφέροντο καὶ περιελάμβανον κύκλῳ τὰ τείχη], τῶν δὲ Μαντινέων ἔκπληξισ ἦν καὶ ἀλαλαγμὸσ καὶ διαδρομή, ὡσ ῥεῦμα τὴν δύναμιν ἀθρόαν ἐμπίπτουσαν ὤσασθαι μὴ δυναμένων μηδ’ ἐπινοούντων βοήθειαν. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 2 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. consternation

Related

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

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