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εὐδιάβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐδιάβολος εὐδιάβολον

Structure: εὐδιαβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. easy to misrepresent

Examples

  • ἔτι δὲ ὁπόσοι κατὰ κρημνῶν ῥιφέντεσ ἀπώλεσαν ὅπλα, ἢ κατὰ θάλατταν, ἢ χειμώνων ἐν κόποισ ὑποδεξαμένησ αὐτοὺσ ἐξαίφνησ πολλῆσ ῥύσεωσ ὕδατοσ, ἢ μυρί’ ἂν ἔχοι τισ τοιαῦτα παραμυθούμενοσ ἐπᾴδειν, εὐδιάβολον κακὸν καλλύνων· (Plato, Laws, book 12 21:2)

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

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