Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ἐπίφθονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίφθονος ἐπίφθονον

Structure: ἐπιφθον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. liable to envy or jealousy, regarded with jealousy, odious, invidious, hateful, jealousy, odium
  2. bearing a grudge against, injurious
  3. liable to, hatred, in an odious manner

Examples

  • καὶ κατορθοῦσι συγχαίρειν ἐπιδεικνύμενοσ οὐδαμῆ δὲ λυπηρὸσ οὐδ’ ἐνοχλῶν οἰκετῶν πλήθει περὶ λουτρὸν ἢ καταλήψεσι τόπων ἐν θεάτροισ οὐδὲ τοῖσ εἰσ τρυφὴν καὶ πολυτέλειαν ἐπιφθόνοισ παράσημοσ· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 31 11:1)
  • δόξαι τ’ ἀνδρῶν καὶ μάλ’ ὑπ’ αἰθέρι σεμναὶ τακόμεναι κατὰ γᾶν μινύθουσιν ἄτιμοι ἁμετέραισ ἐφόδοισ μελανείμοσιν, ὀρχη‐ σμοῖσ τ’ ἐπιφθόνοισ ποδόσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, strophe 31)

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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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