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ἐπιδεικτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδεικτικός ἐπιδεικτική ἐπιδεικτικόν

Structure: ἐπιδεικτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fit for displaying, display
  2. for display, declamations

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅθεν οὐδ’ ἀλούτουσ ποτὲ φευκτέον ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τροφὴν οὐδ’ ὕδωρ πιεῖν οἴνου παρόντοσ οὐδὲ θερμὸν ἐν θέρει, χιόνοσ παρακειμένησ, τὰσ μὲν ἐπιδεικτικὰσ καὶ σοφιστικὰσ χαίρειν ἐῶντασ ἀποσχέσεισ τῶν τοιούτων καὶ μεγαλαυχίασ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἀποσχέσεσιν, αὐτοὺσ δὲ καθ’ ἑαυτοὺσ σιωπῇ τήν τε ὄρεξιν ἅμα τοῦ συμφέροντοσ ὑπήκοον ἐθίζοντασ εἶναι μετ’ εὐκολίασ, καὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀφαιροῦντασ πόρρωθεν ἔτι τὴν περὶ ταῦτα μικρολογίαν ἐν ταῖσ νόσοισ καὶ τὸ ἐπιθρηνεῖν, ἀνοδυρομένησ ὡσ ἐξ ἡδονῶν μεγάλων καὶ ἀγαπητῶν εἰσ ἀγεννῆ καὶ ταπεινὴν ἀπελήλαται δίαιταν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 3 3:1)

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

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