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ἐπισπερχής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισπερχής ἐπισπερχές

Structure: ἐπισπερχη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pispe/rxw

Sense

  1. hasty, hurried

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα κάρτ’ ἐπισπέρχει θεόσ, ἴτω κατ’ οὖρον κῦμα Κωκυτοῦ λαχὸν Φοίβῳ στυγηθὲν πᾶν τὸ Λαί̈ου γένοσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 14)
  • οὕτω καὶ κηδεμονικὸσ ἀνὴρ καὶ πολιτικῆσ ἐπιστήμων δυνάμεωσ τῶν πολιτῶν τοὺσ μὲν εὐγνώμονασ ποιεῖν ἐπιχειρεῖ, τοὺσ δὲ ἔμπαλιν οὐ καθάπαξ διαφθείρεσθαι, ἀλλὰ τροφῆσ μὲν ἀμφοῖν ἥκιστα φθονεῖ, παιδεύει δὲ καὶ σφοδρότερον ἐπισπέρχει τὸν ἀντιβαίνοντα τῷ λόγῳ καὶ τῷ νόμῳ. (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 3-4) 63:2)

Synonyms

  1. hasty

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

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