Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐπροφάσιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπροφάσιστος εὐπροφάσιστον

Structure: εὐπροφασιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with good pretext, plausible

Examples

  • τὰ δ’ ἀμφίλογα εὐπροφάσιστα. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 10:16)
  • τὸν μὲν οὖν στρατόν, ὃν ἡμῖν αὐτὸσ ἔδωκασ, εὐπροφάσιστον ἀποδοῦναί σοι, καὶ παραδίδωμι· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 10 6:4)

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

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