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ἐπαγωγός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαγωγός ἐπαγωγόν

Structure: ἐπαγωγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pa/gw

Sense

  1. attractive, tempting, alluring, seductive, a temptation

Examples

  • καίτοι γε ἀνθηρόσ ἐστιν, εἰ καί τισ ἄλλοσ, καὶ ἐπαγωγὸσ ἡδονῇ τῶν ἀκροωμένων Ἰσοκράτησ, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἔχει τὴν αὐτὴν χάριν ἐκείνῳ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 3 2:1)
  • ἔπειτα ὁ λόγοσ τοῦ μὲν Γαϊού φοβερὸσ καὶ περιπαθὴσ εἰσ δείνωσιν, ἡδίων δὲ ὁ τοῦ Τιβερίου καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπαγωγὸσ οἴκτου· (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 2 3:1)
  • ἀνθρώπουσ δ’ ἔστι πιθανωτέρουσ ποιεῖν καὶ λόγῳ, ἐπιδεικνύοντα ὡσ συμφέρει αὐτοῖσ πείθεσθαι, τοῖσ δὲ δούλοισ καὶ ἡ δοκοῦσα θηριώδησ παιδεία εἶναι πάνυ ἐστὶν ἐπαγωγὸσ πρὸσ τὸ πείθεσθαι διδάσκειν· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 13 10:1)
  • ἦν δ’ οὐχ ὁ λόγοσ αὐτοῦ μόνον ἐπαγωγὸσ εἰσ τὸ εὔψυχον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ ἔργα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 20 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. attractive

Related

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

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