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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

  • ταῦθ’ ὅτι μὲν ὅλῳ τῷ γένει διαφέρει τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν τε καὶ συμβουλευτικῶν κατὰ τὸν χαρακτῆρα τῆσ λέξεωσ, οὐθείσ ἐστιν ὃσ οὐκ ἂν ὁμολογήσειεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 19 7:1)
  • πέρα τοῦ δικανικοῦ τρόπου καὶ ἡ σύνθεσισ ἔχει τι τοῦ ποιητικοῦ τό τε σχῆμα τῆσ λέξεωσ ἐκ τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν εἴληπται παρισώσεων καὶ παρομοιώσεων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 2010)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν προαύλιον ὅμοιον τῷ τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν προοιμίῳ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 1:3)
  • λέγεται δὲ τὰ τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν προοίμια ἐξ ἐπαίνου ἢ ψόγου οἱο͂ν Γοργίασ μὲν ἐν τῷ Ὀλυμπικῷ λόγῳ "ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἄξιοι θαυμάζεσθαι, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἕλληνεσ" · (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 2:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν λόγων προοίμια ἐκ τούτων, ἐξ ἐπαίνου, ἐκ ψόγου, ἐκ προτροπῆσ, ἐξ ἀποτροπῆσ, ἐκ τῶν πρὸσ τὸν ἀκροατήν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 4:3)

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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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