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ἐπίκτητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκτητος ἐπίκτητον

Structure: ἐπικτητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. gained besides or in addition, newly acquired

Examples

  • "πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο κλεινὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ διὰ στόματοσ ἦν ἅπασιν, ὁ φιλόσοφοσ διὰ τὴν παρρησίαν καὶ τὴν ἄγαν ἐλευθερίαν ἐξελαθείσ, καὶ προσήλαυνε κατὰ τοῦτο τῷ Μουσωνίῳ καὶ Δίωνι καὶ Ἐπικτήτῳ καὶ εἴ τισ ἄλλοσ ἐν περιστάσει τοιαύτῃ ἐγένετο. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:43)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐμοί γε οὐ πολὺσ λόγοσ, εἰ οὐχ ἱκανὸσ φανοῦμαι συγγράφειν, Ἐπικτήτῳ τε οὐδ’ ὀλίγοσ, εἰ καταφρονήσει τισ αὐτοῦ τῶν λόγων, ἐπεὶ καὶ λέγων αὐτοὺσ οὐδενὸσ ἄλλου δῆλοσ ἦν ἐφιέμενοσ ὅτι μὴ κινῆσαι τὰσ γνώμασ τῶν ἀκουόντων πρὸσ τὰ βέλτιστα. (Epictetus, Works, arriani epistula ad lucium gellium, chapter 0 5:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν ἐπῆλθεν Ἐπικτήτῳ ταῦτα εἰπεῖν οὐκ εἰωθότι λέγειν πρὸσ οὐδένα. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 36:4)
  • 3συνέβαλ[λ]ον Ἐπικτήτῳ ὡσ λίθῳ, ὡσ ἀνδριάντι". (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 12:1)
  • αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ αὐτὴ τῇ ἐπικτήτῳ, καὶ εἶχον αὐτὴν οἱ Βιθυνοὶ πρότερον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 14:4)

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

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