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ἐμπόδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμπόδιος ἐμπόδιον

Structure: ἐμποδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. at one's feet, coming in the way, meeting
  2. in the way, impeding

Examples

  • ὅσα δὲ πρὸσ ὑγίειάν ἐστιν ἢ πρὸσ εὐεξίαν ἡδέα ὄντα, τούτων ὀρέξεται μετρίωσ καὶ ὡσ δεῖ, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἡδέων μὴ ἐμποδίων τούτοισ ὄντων ἢ παρὰ τὸ καλὸν ἢ ὑπὲρ τὴν οὐσίαν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 157:1)
  • τό γε μὴν ἕκτον ἀμφισβητήσιμον μέν, ὅμωσ δ’ ἔθεμεν αὐτῷ συγχωρήσαντεσ δοξῶν ἐμποδίων μαθήμασιν περὶ ψυχὴν καθαρτὴν αὐτὸν εἶναι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 94:3)

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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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