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ἐπικαίριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικαίριος ἐπικαίριον

Structure: ἐπικαιρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. important, most important, all-important

Examples

  • καὶ ὁπότε δέ τισ ἀσθενήσειε τῶν θεραπεύεσθαι ἐπικαιρίων, ἐπεσκόπει καὶ παρεῖχε πάντα ὅτου ἔδει. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 29:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ὑπηρέται ὥσπερ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσιν οἱ σώφρονεσ ἴσασι μὲν καὶ τῶν πλείστων τὰσ οἰκήσεισ, μάλιστα δὲ τῶν ἐπικαιρίων, οὕτω καὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖσ στρατοπέδοισ τάσ τε χώρασ τὰσ τῶν ἡγεμόνων ἠπίσταντο οἱ Κύρου ὑπηρέται καὶ τὰ σημεῖα ἐγίγνωσκον ἃ ἑκάστοισ ἦν· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 14:2)
  • Αἰτίαι περὶ ἀκαιριῶν καὶ ἐπικαιριῶν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. z'. DHMOKRITOS 16:23)

Synonyms

  1. important

Related

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

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