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ἐπίβουλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίβουλος ἐπίβουλον

Structure: ἐπιβουλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pi/, boulh/

Sense

  1. plotting against, treacherous

Examples

  • ἐπιβούλου γὰρ θάτερον" , ἢ ὧδε, "οὐκ ἀρέσκει δέ μοι τὸ λεγόμενον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 21 14:2)
  • Σπόριοσ δὲ Κάσσιοσ ἀνελεῖν τὰσ πόλεισ αὐτῶν συνεβούλευε θαυμάζειν λέγων ἐπὶ ταῖσ εὐηθείαισ τῶν παραινούντων ἀφεῖναι τὰσ ἁμαρτίασ αὐτοῖσ ἀζημίουσ, εἰ μηδὲ δύνανται καταμαθεῖν, ὅτι διὰ τὸν φθόνον τὸν ἔμφυτόν τε καὶ ἀναφαίρετον, ὃν ἔχουσι πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν αὐξομένην, ἄλλουσ ἐπ’ ἄλλοισ ἐπιτεχνῶνται πολέμουσ καὶ οὐδέποτε παύσονται τῆσ ἐπιβούλου προαιρέσεωσ ἑκόντεσ, ἑώσ αὐτῶν τοῦτ’ ἐν ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ τὸ δύστηνον ἐνοικεῖ πάθοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 20 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. plotting against

Similar forms

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

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