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ἐκπρεπής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκπρεπής ἐκπρεπές

Structure: ἐκπρεπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)kpre/pw

Sense

  1. distinguished out of all, preeminent, remarkable
  2. unseemly, monstrous, without reasonable grounds

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ μήν, ὦ Νικήρατε, καὶ Ἀχιλλεὺσ Ὁμήρῳ πεποίηται οὐχ ὡσ παιδικοῖσ Πατρόκλῳ ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἑταίρῳ ἀποθανόντι ἐκπρεπέστατα τιμωρῆσαι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 32:1)
  • ἐδοξάτην μοι δύο γυναῖκ’ εὐείμονε, ἡ μὲν πέπλοισι Περσικοῖσ ἠσκημένη, ἡ δ’ αὖτε Δωρικοῖσιν, εἰσ ὄψιν μολεῖν, μεγέθει τε τῶν νῦν ἐκπρεπεστάτα πολύ, κάλλει τ’ ἀμώμω, καὶ κασιγνήτα γένουσ ταὐτοῦ· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics4)

Synonyms

  1. distinguished out of all

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

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