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ἐπιπόλαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιπόλαιος ἐπιπόλαιον

Structure: ἐπιπολαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pipolh/

Sense

  1. on the surface, superficial, superficial, common-place
  2. prominent

Examples

  • ^ οὐ γὰρ ἁπλοῦν οὐδὲ ἐπιπόλαιον τῆσ μανίασ τὸ εἶδοσ, ἀλλά τι παλαιὸν ὑποικουροῦν ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ κακὸν ἀπέρρηξε καὶ ἐσ τοὐμφανὲσ ἐξενίκησε. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 6:2)
  • τοὺσ φόβουσ καὶ τὰ δείματα καὶ ὑποψίασ καὶ μῖσοσ τὸ παρὰ τῶν συνόντων καὶ ἐπιβουλάσ, καὶ διὰ ταῦτα ὕπνον τε ὀλίγον, ἐπιπόλαιον κἀκεῖνον, καὶ ταραχῆσ μεστὰ ὀνείρατα καὶ ἐννοίασ πολυπλόκουσ καὶ ἐλπίδασ ἀεὶ πονηράσ, ἢ τὴν ἀσχολίαν καὶ χρηματισμοὺσ καὶ δίκασ καὶ ἐκστρατείασ καὶ προστάγματα καὶ συνθήματα καὶ λογισμούσ; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 25:5)
  • ἐπιπόλαιον μέν μοι τὸ τραῦμα καὶ οὐκ εἰσ τὰ φανερὰ τοῦ σώματοσ, ὡσ μηδὲ τὴν οὐλὴν ὕστερον ἄμορφον γενέσθαι. (Lucian, 64:4)
  • "δείγματοσ μὲν οὖν χάριν ἔστιν οὗπερ ἐπιπόλαιον αὐτῶν ἐστι τὸ γένοσ, εἲ γ’ ἐν ταῖσ ἐσχατιαῖσ τῆσ οἰκουμένησ καὶ ποτάμια τὰ τυχόντα ψήγματα χρυσοῦ καταφέρει καὶ ταῦτα γυναῖκεσ καὶ ἄνδρεσ ἀσθενεῖσ τὰ σώματα σὺν ταῖσ ἄμμοισ ὑποψήχοντεσ διιστᾶσι καὶ πλύναντεσ ἄγουσιν ἐπὶ τὴν χώνην, ὡσ παρὰ τοῖσ Ἐλουητίοισ φησὶν ὁ ἐμὸσ Ποσειδώνιοσ καὶ ἄλλοισ τισὶ τῶν Κελτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1942)
  • ἔστι δ’ οὐ πάνυ γνώριμον τὸ πάθοσ οὐδ’ ἐπιπόλαιον διὰ τὸ πάντασ ἐπὶ θάτερον ἁμαρτάνειν μᾶλλον καὶ πᾶσιν εἶναι σύμφυτον τὴν τῶν τοιούτων ἡδέων ἧτταν καὶ αἴσθησιν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 58:1)
  • ἤρα δέ, ὦ Χρυσί, ἐπιπόλαιόν τινα ἔρωτα οὔτε ὑποστένων οὔτε δακρύων οὔτε ἀωρὶ παραγιγνόμενοσ ἐπὶ τὰσ θύρασ, ἀλλ̓ αὐτὸ μόνον συνεκάθευδέ μοι ἐνίοτε, καὶ τοῦτο διὰ μακροῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:13)

Synonyms

  1. prominent

Related

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

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