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ἐπίψογος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίψογος ἐπίψογον

Structure: ἐπιψογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. exposed to blame, blameworthy
  2. censorious

Examples

  • χρηματίσασθαι τοίνυν ἀπὸ τοῦ λόγου Δημοσθένησ μὲν ἐπιψόγωσ λέγεται, λογογραφῶν κρύφα τοῖσ περὶ Φορμίωνα καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρον ἀντιδίκοισ, καὶ διαβληθεὶσ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ βασιλικοῖσ χρήμασιν, ὀφλὼν δὲ τῶν Ἁρπαλείων. (Plutarch, Comparison of Demosthenes with Cicero, chapter 3 5:1)
  • ὃ καὶ θαυμαστόν ἐστιν ὑπεναντίωσ γὰρ ἡ νεότησ τοῦ μὲν ἐπίψογοσ καὶ ἀκόλαστοσ γεγονέναι δοκεῖ, τοῦ δὲ πεπαιδευμένη καὶ σώφρων, βελτίων οὖν ᾧ πρὸσ τὸ βέλτιον ἡ μεταβολή· (Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon, chapter 1 4:1)
  • οὐδ’ οἶδα τέρψιν οὐδ’ ἐπίψογον φάτιν ἄλλου πρὸσ ἀνδρὸσ μᾶλλον ἢ χαλκοῦ βαφάσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 3:8)
  • οὐδὲν μέντοι δεῖ θαυμάζειν τούτων τῶν ἐπιψόγων αὐτοῖσ γιγνομένων, ἐπειδὴ φανεροί εἰσιν οὔτε τῷ θεῷ πειθόμενοι οὔτε τοῖσ Λυκούργου νόμοισ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 14 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. exposed to blame

  2. censorious

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

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