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ἔντονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔντονος ἔντονον

Structure: ἐντον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)ntei/nw

Sense

  1. well-strung, sinewy, intense, earnest, eager, vehement, eagerly, violently

Examples

  • δεῦρο Μοῦσ’ ἐλθὲ φλεγυρὰ πυρὸσ ἔχουσα μένοσ ἔντονοσ Ἀχαρνική. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, strophe1)
  • ὃ καὶ μάλιστά μοι δοκεῖ δείσασ ἐπ’ ἀργυρίῳ καταθέσθαι τὴν πρὸσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἔχθραν οὐ γάρ τι γλυκύθυμοσ ἀνὴρ ἦν οὐδ’ ἀγανόφρων, ἀλλ’ ἔντονοσ καὶ βίαιοσ ὑπὲρ τὰσ ἀμύνασ, ὁρῶν δ’ οὐ φαῦλον οὐδὲ τῆσ αὐτοῦ δυνάμεωσ ἔργον ἄνδρα καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ λόγῳ καὶ φίλοισ εὖ πεφραγμένον καθελεῖν, τὸν Μειδίαν, ἐνέδωκε τοῖσ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ δεομένοισ. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 12 2:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ἰδέᾳ προσώπου καὶ βλέμματι καὶ κινήματι πρᾶοσ καὶ καταστηματικὸσ ἦν ὁ Τιβέριοσ, ἔντονοσ δὲ καὶ σφοδρὸσ ὁ Γάϊοσ, ὥστε καὶ δημηγορεῖν τὸν μὲν ἐν μιᾷ χώρᾳ βεβηκότα κοσμίωσ, τὸν δὲ Ῥωμαίων πρῶτον ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματοσ περιπάτῳ τε χρήσασθαι καὶ περισπάσαι τήν τήβεννον ἐξ ὤμου λέγοντα, καθάπερ Κλέωνα τὸν Ἀθηναῖον ἱστόρηται περισπάσαι τε τήν περιβολὴν καὶ τὸν μηρὸν ἀλοῆσαι πρῶτον τῶν δημηγορούντων. (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 2 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. well-strung

Related

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

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