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ἐπισφαλής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισφαλής ἐπισφαλές

Structure: ἐπισφαλη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/llw

Sense

  1. prone to fall, unstable, precarious, danger

Examples

  • "ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ φάρμακα ἐνίοισ μὲν οὐχ ἁρμόζει νοσοῦσιν, ἐνίοισ δὲ λυσιτελεῖ καὶ μὴ νοσοῦσιν ἐπισφαλέστερον ἐκείνων ἔχουσιν. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 214)
  • ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπισφαλέστερον καὶ ἐν ἀλλοτρίοισ κινδυνευόντων. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 18)
  • τί γὰρ ἐπισφαλέστερον ἀστυγείτονοσ καὶ βαρβάρου πολέμου; (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 45 5:2)
  • ὡσ ἱππέων λελυκότων τὴν τάξιν τὴν ἐν οὐλαμοῖσ, αἱρουμένων κινδυνεύειν, οὐδὲν ἐπισφαλέστερον ὑπάρχον οὐδ’ ἀχρειότερον. (Polybius, Histories, book 10, chapter 23 8:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἀπειρότερον, ἅμα δ’ ἐπισφαλέστερον ἄρχοντοσ, ὃσ ὁρᾶται μὲν ὑπὸ πάντων τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων, ὁρᾷ δ’ οὐδένα; (Polybius, Histories, book 10, chapter 24 3:1)

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

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