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εὐλάβεια

Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐλάβεια

Etym.: eu)labh/s

Sense

  1. discretion, caution, circumspection, caution, caution
  2. caution or discretion in
  3. reverence, piety, godly fear
  4. over-caution, timidity

Examples

  • παρέπεται δὲ τῇ σωφροσύνῃ εὐταξία, κοσμιότησ, αἰδώσ, εὐλάβεια. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 21:1)
  • ὕπεστι δέ τισ εὐλάβεια καὶ τὸ ἀφιλόνεικον τοῦ ἤθουσ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 32:4)
  • τῇ δ’ Εὐλαβείᾳ, χρησιμωτάτῃ θεῶν, προσευχόμεσθα τήνδε διασῷσαι πόλιν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 2:9)
  • "ὦ παῖ, εὐλάβεια καὶ τὸ πρᾶον καὶ φιλάνθρωπον ἀπώλεσε μεθ’ ἡμῶν. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 20 4:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ εὐλάβεια σῴζει πάντα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme25)

Synonyms

  1. discretion

Related

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

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