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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

  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν οὐχ ἡδονῆσ χάριν ἐπιπολαίου καὶ δημοτικῆσ ἡ μουσικὴ προῆλθεν κατ’ ἀρχὰσ εἰσ τὰσ ἑστιάσεισ, ὥσπερ ἔνιοι νομίζουσιν, φανερὸν ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 24 4:4)
  • Ἁρμόζει δὲ ἐν περιπλευμονίῃσι μᾶλλον ἢ ἐν καύσοισι τὸ ἐπίπαν‧ καὶ γὰρ ὀδύνησ τῆσ κατὰ πλευρὴν καὶ στήθεα καὶ μετάφρενον παρηγορικόν ἐστι τὸ λουτρὸν, καὶ πτυέλου πεπαντικὸν καὶ ἀναγωγὸν, καὶ εὔπνοον καὶ ἄκοπον‧ μαλθακτικὸν γὰρ καὶ ἄρθρων καὶ τοῦ ἐπιπολαίου δέρματοσ‧ καὶ οὐρητικὸν δὲ, καὶ καρηβαρίην λύει, καὶ Ῥῖνασ ὑγραίνει. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 18.7)

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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