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ἐπιστρεφής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιστρεφής ἐπιστρεφές

Structure: ἐπιστρεφη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pistre/fw

Sense

  1. turning one's eyes or mind, attentive
  2. earnest, vehement, earnestly, sharply

Examples

  • τί δῆτα Νείλου τούσδ’ ἐπιστρέφῃ γύασ; (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:20)
  • ἢ μᾶλλον ὡσ νῦν ὀνομάζουσιν αὐτὴν Ὥραν μηκυνομένησ τῆσ προτέρασ συλλαβῆσ, ἐπιστρεφῆ τινα καὶ πολυωρητικὴν θεόν, ἣν διαφυλακτικὴν καὶ φροντιστικὴν οὖσαν οὐδέποτε ῥᾴθυμον οὐδ’ ὀλίγωρον εἶναι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἐνόμιζον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 46 1:3)
  • ὡρ́αν μηκυνομένησ τῆσ προτέρασ συλλαβῆσ, ἐπιστρεφῆ τινα καὶ πολυωρητικὴν θεόν, ἣν διαφυλακτικὴν καὶ φροντιστικὴν οὖσαν οὐδέποτε ῥάθυμον οὐδ’ ὀλίγωρον εἶναι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἐνόμιζον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 46 2:2)
  • "οὐκ ἐπιστρέφῃ; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 8:4)
  • τὰ γὰρ ἐπὶ σοὶ αὐτεξούσια καὶ φύσει ἐλεύθερα θέλων τηρῆσαι καὶ τούτοισ ἀρκούμενοσ τίνοσ ἔτι ἐπιστρέφῃ; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 3:1)

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

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