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εὐήνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐήνιος εὐήνιον

Structure: εὐηνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h(ni/a

Sense

  1. obedient to the rein, tractable

Examples

  • "λέγειν δὲ τὴν φωνὴν τοὺσ μὲν εὐθεῖαν καὶ τεταγμένην κίνησιν ἔχοντασ εὐηνίοισ ψυχαῖσ χρῆσθαι διὰ τροφὴν καὶ παίδευσιν ἀστείαν, οὐκ ἄγαν σκληρὸν καὶ ἄγριον παρεχομέναισ τὸ ἄλογον τοὺσ δ’ ἄνω καὶ κάτω πολλάκισ ἀνωμάλωσ καὶ τεταραγμένωσ ἐγκλίνοντασ, οἱο͂ν ἐκ δεσμοῦ σπαραττομένουσ, δυσπειθέσι καὶ ἀναγώγοισ δι’ ἀπαιδευσίαν ζυγομαχεῖν ἤθεσι, πῆ μὲν κρατοῦντασ καὶ περιάγοντασ; (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 2244)

Synonyms

  1. obedient to the rein

Related

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

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