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ἔμψυχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμψυχος ἔμψυχον

Structure: ἐμψυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, yuxh/

Sense

  1. having life in one, alive, living
  2. animated

Examples

  • ὡσ ἔφη Πίνδαροσ, οὐκ ἐν βιβλίοισ ἔξω γεγραμμένοσ οὐδέ τισι ξύλοισ, ἀλλ’ ἔμψυχοσ ὢν ἐν αὐτῷ λόγοσ, ἀεὶ συνοικῶν καὶ παραφυλάττων καὶ μηδέποτε τὴν ψυχὴν ἐῶν ἔρημον ἡγεμονίασ. (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 3 1:2)
  • καὶ λόγον ἔχουσα προτροπὴ καὶ παράδειγμα καὶ ζῆλον οἰκεῖον ἔμψυχόσ ἐστι καὶ κινεῖ καὶ παροξύνει, καὶ μεθ’ ὁρμῆσ καὶ προαιρέσεωσ ἐλπίδασ ὡσ ἐφικτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἀδυνάτων παρίστησι. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 15 3:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ πάθοσ οὐδὲ συμβεβηκὸσ ἧσ ἔτυχε κινήσεωσ ὁ χρόνοσ ἐστίν, αἰτία δὲ καὶ δύναμισ καὶ ἀρχὴ τῆσ πάντα συνεχούσησ τὰ γιγνόμενα συμμετρίασ καὶ τάξεωσ, ἣν ἡ τοῦ ὅλου φύσισ ἔμψυχοσ οὖσα κινεῖται· (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 8, section 4 6:2)
  • εἴπερ ἔμψυχόσ γ’ ἐγώ. (Sophocles, episode 4:27)
  • ὁ δέ, ἅτ’ ἔμψυχοσ ὢν καὶ λαβὼν ἀναπνοήν, τοῦθ’ ᾗπερ ἀνέπνευσεν, τῆσ ἐκροῆσ ζωτικὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ἐμποιήσασ αὐτῷ, τοῦ γεννᾶν ἔρωτα ἀπετέλεσεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 485:1)

Synonyms

  1. having life in one

  2. animated

Related

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

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