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ἐπίκαιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκαιρος ἐπίκαιρον

Structure: ἐπικαιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in fit time or place, in season, seasonable, opportune, convenient, most convenient, convenient for . .
  2. vital

Examples

  • τοιαύτη μὲν οὖν τισ ἡ Θρασυμάχειοσ ἑρμηνεία, μέση τοῖν δυεῖν καὶ εὔκρατοσ καὶ εἰσ ἀμφοτέρουσ τοὺσ χαρακτῆρασ ἐπίκαιρον ἀφετήριον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 3 4:1)
  • τάχ’ ἂν οὖν ἤδη τισ θαυμάζοι καὶ διαποροίη, τί παθὼν ὁ Ἐρασίστρατοσ εἰσ τοσοῦτον τῶν Ἱπποκράτουσ δογμάτων ἀπετράπετο καὶ διὰ τί τῶν ἐν ἥπατι πόρων τῶν χοληδόχων, ἅλισ γὰρ ἤδη νεφρῶν, ἀφελόμενοσ τὴν ἑλκτικὴν δύναμιν ἐπίκαιρον αἰτιᾶται θέσιν καὶ στομάτων στενότητα καὶ χώραν τινὰ κοινήν, εἰσ ἣν παράγουσι μὲν αἱ ἀπὸ τῶν πυλῶν τὸ ἀκάθαρτον αἷμα, μεταλαμβάνουσι δὲ πρότεροι μὲν οἱ πόροι τὴν χολήν, δεύτεραι δ’ αἱ ἀπὸ τῆσ κοίλησ φλεβὸσ τὸ καθαρὸν αἷμα. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 426)
  • ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν κοίλην κάπετον χερσὶ ταχύνατε, τοὶ δ’ ὑψίβατον τρίποδ’ ἀμφίπυρον λουτρῶν ὁσίων θέσθ’ ἐπίκαιρον· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode, anapests3)
  • ἀδενώδεεσ γὰρ τὴν φύσιν, ἐσ δὲ ὄλεθρον εὐήθεεσ· ἐπίκαιρον δὲ αὐτέων τὸ ἔργον, ἥ τε διάκρισισ τῶν οὔρων ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματοσ καὶ ἡ ἀπόκρισισ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 188)
  • ἐν γὰρ τῇ νειαιρῇ γαστρὶ κατωτάτω ἵζει προσωτάτω τοῦ θώρηκοσ · ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔργον αὐτέησ ἐπίκαιρον ἡ τῶν οὔρων ἔξοδοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 199)

Synonyms

  1. in fit time or place

Related

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

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