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

  • οὐδενὶ γὰρ τῶν πενήτων, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ἐξ οἴκων τε μεγάλων καὶ διὰ γένουσ ὄγκον ἐπιφθόνων ὄστρακον ἐπιφέρεσθαι· (Plutarch, , chapter 1 3:1)
  • ἀκμαζούσησ δὲ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸν Νικίαν τοῦ Ἀλκιβιάδου διαφορᾶσ, καὶ γιγνομένησ ὀστρακοφορίασ, ἣν εἰώθει διὰ χρόνου τινὸσ ὁ δῆμοσ ποιεῖσθαι, ἕνα τῶν ὑπόπτων ἢ διὰ δόξαν ἄλλωσ ἢ πλοῦτον ἐπιφθόνων ἀνδρῶν τῷ ὀστράκῳ μεθιστὰσ εἰσ δέκα ἔτη, πολὺσ θόρυβοσ ἀμφοτέρουσ περιί̈στατο καὶ κίνδυνοσ, ὡσ θατέρου πάντωσ ὑποπεσουμένου τῷ ἐξοστρακισμῷ. (Plutarch, , chapter 11 1:1)

Related

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

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