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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)
  • "ὁ δὲ Σίφνιοσ Δίφιλοσ ἱστορεῖ ὡσ ἡ μαλάχη ἐστὶν εὔχυλοσ, λεαντικὴ ἀρτηρίασ, τὰσ ἐπιπολαίουσ ἀποκρίνουσα δριμύτητασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5212)
  • "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)
  • ἄν γὰρ μὴ πολὺσ ἀλλ’ ἐπιπόλαιοσ ὁ πάγοσ ᾖ, αἰσθανόμεναι τῷ ψόφῳ τοῦ ὑπορρέοντοσ ὕδατοσ ἀναστρέφουσιν ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ θηρεύουσιν ἰχθῦσ, ὕδατι θερμῷ τοῦ πάγου παραλύοντεσ καὶ χαλῶντεσ; (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 12 4:1)

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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