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ἔμπρακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπρακτος ἔμπρακτον

Structure: ἐμπρακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n

Sense

  1. practicable

Examples

  • τοῦ γὰρ Μαρσικοῦ πολέμου συνισταμένου, στρατιώτασ τε προσταχθὲν αὐτῷ καταλέγειν καὶ ὅπλα ποιεῖσθαι, σπουδὴν καὶ τάχοσ προσθεὶσ τῷ ἔργῳ παρὰ τὴν τῶν ἄλλων νέων βραδυτῆτα καὶ μαλακίαν ἀνδρὸσ ἐμπράκτωσ βιωσομένου δόξαν ἔσχεν. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 4 1:3)
  • τούτων δὲ κυρωθέντων, καὶ μελλόντων αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τῶν δημοσίων ἐπὶ τὸν θάνατον ἄγεσθαι, Διομέδων εἷσ τῶν στρατηγῶν παρῆλθεν εἰσ τὸ μέσον, ἀνὴρ καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον ἔμπρακτοσ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ τε καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ ἀρεταῖσ δοκῶν διαφέρειν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 102 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. practicable

Related

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

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