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ἔκθυμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκθυμος ἔκθυμον

Structure: ἐκθυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. out of one's mind, senseless
  2. very spirited, ardent

Examples

  • τοῦ δὲ πολέμου καὶ τῆσ στρατηγίασ αὑτοῦ τὸ μὲν τόλμησ ὀξύτητι, τὸ δὲ βουλεύμασι χρηστοῖσ, τὸ δὲ φίλων ἐκθύμοισ ὑπηρεσίαισ, τὸ δὲ τῷ παρὰ τὰ δεινὰ θαρρεῖν καὶ χρῆσθαι λογισμοῖσ ἀραρόσιν ὁρῶν διαπεπραγμένον, οὐκ ἔχω τῇ λεγομένῃ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ εὐτυχίᾳ λαμπρὸν ἀποδοῦναι καὶ διάσημον ἔργον οἱο͂ν ἑτέρων στρατηγῶν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 12 1:2)
  • καὶ θαυμαστὸν μὲν ἐν τῷ κινδύνῳ παρασχὼν ἑαυτὸν στρατηγόν, ἐκθύμοισ δὲ χρησάμενοσ τοῖσ πολίταισ, οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ τῶν ξένων μεμπτῶσ ἀγωνισαμένων, τῷ τρόπῳ τῆσ ὁπλίσεωσ καὶ τῷ βάρει τῆσ ὁπλιτικῆσ φάλαγγοσ ἐξεθλίβη. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 28 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. out of one's mind

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

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