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ἐλεγχής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεγχής ἐλεγχές

Structure: ἐλεγχη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)/legxos

Sense

  1. worthy of reproof;, cowardly

Examples

  • διὸ τοὺσ παραπίπτοντασ κατ̓ ὀλίγον ἐλέγχεισ καὶ ἐν οἷσ ἁμαρτάνουσιν ὑπομιμνήσκων νουθετεῖσ, ἵνα ἀπαλλαγέντεσ τῆσ κακίασ πιστεύσωσιν ἐπὶ σέ, Κύριε. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 12:2)
  • ἐλέγχεισ μ’ ἕνεκα συλλαβῆσ μιᾶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 65 3:9)
  • τί ταῦτ’ ἄλλωσ ἐλέγχεισ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 79 2:3)
  • καὶ ὑβρίζεισ μὲν σαυτὸν καὶ τοὺσ γονέασ τεθνεῶτασ, προπηλακίζεισ δὲ τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ἃ τῆσ τουτωνὶ φιλανθρωπίασ ἀπολαύσασ ηὑρ́εθ’ ὁ σὸσ πατὴρ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Φορμίων οὑτοσί, ταῦτ’ ἀντὶ τοῦ κοσμεῖν καὶ περιστέλλειν, ἵνα καὶ τοῖσ δοῦσιν ὡσ εὐσχημονέστατ’ ἐφαίνετο καὶ τοῖσ λαβοῦσιν ὑμῖν, ἄγεισ εἰσ μέσον, δεικνύεισ, ἐλέγχεισ, μόνον οὐκ ὀνειδίζεισ οἱο͂ν ὄντα σ’ ἐποιήσαντ’ Ἀθηναῖον. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 67:1)
  • τί ταῦτ’ ἄλλωσ ἐλέγχεισ; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:4)

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

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