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εὐπρόσωπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπρόσωπος εὐπρόσωπον

Structure: εὐπροσωπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pro/swpon

Sense

  1. fair of face, with glad countenance
  2. fair in outward show, specious

Examples

  • ὡσ δὲ τὸ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀξίωμα λαβὼν ἀφίκετ’ εἰσ τοὺσ Ἀμφικτύονασ, πάντα τἄλλ’ ἀφεὶσ καὶ παριδὼν ἐπέραινεν ἐφ’ οἷσ ἐμισθώθη,καὶ λόγουσ εὐπροσώπουσ καὶ μύθουσ, ὅθεν ἡ Κιρραία χώρα καθιερώθη, συνθεὶσ καὶ διεξελθὼν ἀνθρώπουσ ἀπείρουσ λόγων καὶ τὸ μέλλον οὐ προορωμένουσ, τοὺσ ἱερομνήμονασ, πείθει ψηφίσασθαι περιελθεῖν τὴν χώραν, ἣν οἱ μὲν Ἀμφισσεῖσ σφῶν αὐτῶν οὖσαν γεωργεῖν ἔφασαν, οὗτοσ δὲ τῆσ ἱερᾶσ χώρασ ᾐτιᾶτ’ εἶναι, οὐδεμίαν δίκην τῶν Λοκρῶν ἐπαγόντων ἡμῖν, οὐδ’ ἃ νῦν προφασίζεται λέγων οὐκ ἀληθῆ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 221:2)

Synonyms

  1. fair of face

  2. fair in outward show

Related

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

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