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ἐμπαθής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμπαθής ἐμπαθές

Structure: ἐμπαθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pa/qos

Sense

  1. in a state of emotion, much affected by or at

Examples

  • καὶ τοῦ μὲν φιλεῖν ἀπαρύσαι τὸ ἐμπαθὲσ ἄγαν καὶ πρόθυμον οὐκ ἂν ἔτι δυνηθείην τοῦ δὲ πιστεύειν σφόδρα χρησαίμην ἂν ἴσωσ χαλινῷ τῇ Πλάτωνοσ; (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 16 3:1)
  • καὶ τοῦ μὲν φιλεῖν ἀπαρύσαι τὸ ἐμπαθὲσ ἄγαν καὶ πρόθυμον οὐκ ἂν ἔτι δυνηθείην· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 16 1:3)
  • "τὸ δ’ ἐμπαθὲσ ἐν ἀρχῇ καὶ δάκνον, ὦ μακάριε Ζεύξιππε, μὴ φοβηθῇσ ὡσ ἕλκοσ ἢ ὀδαξησμὸν καίτοι καὶ μεθ’ ἕλκουσ ἴσωσ οὐδὲν ἢ δεινὸν ὥσπερ τὰ δένδρα συμφυῆ γενέσθαι πρὸσ γυναῖκα χρηστήν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 241)
  • ταύτῃ δὲ τὸ ἐμπαθέσ, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, καὶ ἑλκῶδεσ καὶ ταρακτικὸν καὶ καταδεδουλωμένον εὐθὺσ; (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 5 2:1)
  • μάλιστα δὲ κατὰ τὸ δραστήριον καὶ ἐναγώνιον καὶ ἐμπαθὲσ ὅλῳ καὶ τῷ παντὶ κρεῖττον ἔχει ἐκείνησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 21 6:1)

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

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