Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • οὐδ’ ἂν κατίσχυε τὴν πάντων ἰσχυροτέραν ἀλήθειαν, εἰ μὴ πολὺ τὸ ἐπαγωγὸν καὶ πιθανὸν καὶ μυρία ἄλλα παρεσκεύαστο κατὰ τῶν ἀκουόντων. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 11:2)
  • αἱ δέ γε ἑταῖραι, καὶ μάλιστα αἱ ἀμορφότεραι αὐτῶν, καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα ὅλην πορφυρᾶν καὶ τὴν δειρὴν χρυσῆν πεποίηνται, τῷ πολυτελεῖ θηρώμεναι τὸ ἐπαγωγὸν καὶ τὸ ἐνδέον τῷ καλῷ προσθέσει τοῦ ἔξωθεν τερπνοῦ παραμυθούμεναι· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:2)
  • τῆσ γὰρ τέχνησ τὸ ἀκριβὲσ καὶ τῆσ ἱστορίασ μετὰ τοῦ ἀρχαίου τὸ ὠφέλιμον ἐπαγωγὸν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ καὶ πεπαιδευμένων θεατῶν δεόμενον. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 21:6)
  • 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)
  • ἓν μόνον, εὐμήκησ ἐστὶ καὶ ὀρθὴ καὶ μειδιᾷ πάνυ ἐπαγωγόν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:3)
  • 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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