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ἐπίκλοπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκλοπος ἐπίκλοπον

Structure: ἐπικλοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kle/ptw

Sense

  1. thievish, wily
  2. cunning in

Examples

  • τοὺσ ἄνδρασ συσσίτια καλῶσ ἅμα καί, ὅπερ εἶπον, θαυμαστῶσ καθέστηκεν ἐκ θείασ τινὸσ ἀνάγκησ, τὸ δὲ περὶ τὰσ γυναῖκασ οὐδαμῶσ ὀρθῶσ ἀνομοθέτητον μεθεῖται καὶ οὐκ εἰσ τὸ φῶσ ἦκται τὸ τῆσ συσσιτίασ αὐτῶν ἐπιτήδευμα, ἀλλ’ ὃ καὶ ἄλλωσ γένοσ ἡμῶν τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαθραιότερον μᾶλλον καὶ ἐπικλοπώτερον ἔφυ, τὸ θῆλυ, διὰ τὸ ἀσθενέσ, οὐκ ὀρθῶσ τοῦτο εἴξαντοσ τοῦ νομοθέτου δύστακτον ὂν ἀφείθη. (Plato, Laws, book 6 205:1)

Synonyms

  1. thievish

  2. cunning in

Related

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

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