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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

  • ἔτι δὲ θαυμάσειεν ἄν τισ καὶ τῆσ ὀροφῆσ ἐν τῷ εὐμόρφῳ τὸ ἀπέριττον κἀν τῷ εὐκόσμῳ τὸ ἀνεπίληπτον καὶ τὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ ἐσ τὸ εὐπρεπὲσ σύμμετρον, ἀλλὰ μὴ παρὰ τὰσ χρείασ ἐπίφθονον, ἀλλ’ ὁπόσον ἂν καὶ γυναικὶ σώφρονι καὶ καλῇ ἀρκέσῃ ἐπισημότερον ἐργάσασθαι τὸ κάλλοσ, ἢ περὶ τῇ δειρῇ λεπτόσ τισ ὁρ́μοσ ἢ περὶ τῷ δακτύλῳ σφενδόνη εὔφοροσ ἢ ἐν τοῖν ὤτοιν ἐλλόβια ἢ πόρπη τισ ἢ ταινία τὸ ἄφετον τῆσ κόμησ συνδέουσα, τοσοῦτον τῇ εὐμορφίᾳ προστιθεῖσα ὅσον τῇ ἐσθῆτι ἡ πορφύρα· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:1)
  • ὡσ ὁπόσοι τῷ μέγα δύνασθαι μὴ πρὸσ ὑπεροψίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸσ εὐποιίαν ἐχρήσαντο, οὗτοι καὶ ἄξιοι μάλιστα τῶν παρὰ τῆσ τύχησ δοθέντων ἀγαθῶν ὤφθησαν, καὶ μόνοι ἂν οὗτοι δικαίωσ τὸ ἐπίφθονον διαφύγοιεν· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 21:3)
  • ἄναξ, ἀπωθεῖν συμμάχουσ ἐπίφθονον. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 3:16)
  • ὥστε τὸ ἄγαν τοῦτο καὶ ἐπίφθονον ἀφαίρει, ὦ Λυκῖνε. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 14:1)
  • λοιδορῆσαι τοὺσ πονηροὺσ οὐδέν ἐστ’ ἐπίφθονον, ἀλλὰ τιμὴ τοῖσι χρηστοῖσ, ὅστισ εὖ λογίζεται. (Aristotle, Parabasis, epirrheme1)
  • τούτων οὕνεκ’ οὐ μάχησ ἐρᾶν οὐδ’ αἰσχρὸν οὐδὲν οὐδ’ ἐπίφθονόν σε δρᾶν, οὐδ’ αὖ σ’ Ἀχαιοῖσ βούλομαι ῥίπτειν ἀράσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 4:35)

Related

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

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