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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

  • χρόνοι δὲ ἑκάστου τούτων εἰσὶ τῷ μὲν συμβουλεύοντι ὁ μέλλων περὶ γὰρ τῶν ἐσομένων συμβουλεύει ἢ προτρέπων ἢ ἀποτρέπων, τῷ δὲ δικαζομένῳ ὁ γενόμενοσ περὶ γὰρ τῶν πεπραγμένων ἀεὶ ὁ μὲν κατηγορεῖ, ὁ δὲ ἀπολογεῖται, τῷ δ’ ἐπιδεικτικῷ κυριώτατοσ μὲν ὁ παρών κατὰ γὰρ τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἐπαινοῦσιν ἢ ψέγουσιν πάντεσ, προσχρῶνται δὲ πολλάκισ καὶ τὰ γενόμενα ἀναμιμνήσκοντεσ καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα προεικάζοντεσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 3 4:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ οὔτε πραχθῆναι οἱο͂́ν τε οὔτε πεπρᾶχθαι τὰ ἀδύνατα ἀλλὰ τὰ δυνατά, οὐδὲ τὰ μὴ γενόμενα ἢ μὴ ἐσόμενα οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε τὰ μὲν πεπρᾶχθαι, τὰ δὲ πραχθήσεσθαι, ἀναγκαῖον καὶ τῷ συμβουλεύοντι καὶ τῷ δικαζομένῳ καὶ τῷ ἐπιδεικτικῷ ἔχειν προτάσεισ περὶ δυνατοῦ καὶ ἀδυνάτου, καὶ εἰ γέγονεν ἢ μή, καὶ εἰ ἔσται ἢ μή. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 3 8:1)

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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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