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εὐσχήμων

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐσχήμων εὐσχήμον

Structure: εὐσχημων (Stem)

Etym.: sxh=ma

Sense

  1. elegant in figure, mien and bearing, graceful
  2. with an outside show of goodness, specious
  3. decent, becoming, with grace and dignity, like a gentleman
  4. noble, honourable

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὅ γε νοῦν ἔχων σωτήρια φρονοῦντα τοῦ ἡλίου μυριάδασ ἀνθρώπων ἀπείρουσ ἐφορῶντοσ εὐρυεδοῦσ ὅσοι καρπὸν αἰνύμεθα χθονόσ, οὐκ εἴ τινων ἧττον ἔνδοξόσ ἐστι καὶ πλούσιοσ, ὀδυρόμενοσ κάθηται καὶ ταπεινούμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ὅτι μυρίων μυριάκισ ἐν τοσούτοισ εὐσχημονέστερον ζῇ καὶ βέλτιον, ὑμνῶν τὸν ἑαυτοῦ δαίμονα καὶ τὸν βίον ὁδῷ πρόεισιν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 10 3:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅ γε νοῦν ἔχων σωτήρια φρονοῦντα τοῦ ἡλίου μυριάδασ ἀνθρώπων ἐφορῶντοσ εὐρυεδοῦσ ὅσοι καρπὸν αἰνύμεθα χθονόσ,’ οὐκ εἴ τινων ἧττον ἔνδοξόσ ἐστι καὶ πλούσιοσ, ὀδυρόμενοσ κάθηται καὶ ταπεινούμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ὅτι μυρίων μυριάκισ ἐν τοσούτοισ εὐσχημονέστερον ζῇ καὶ βέλτιον, ὑμνῶν τὸν ἑαυτοῦ δαίμονα καὶ τὸν βίον ὁδῷ πρόεισιν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 10 7:1)
  • καλοῦσι δὲ καὶ τὰσ μισθαρνούσασ ἑταίρασ καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ συνουσίαισ μισθαρνεῖν ἑταιρεῖν, οὐκ ἔτι πρὸσ τὸ ἔτυμον ἀναφέροντεσ, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ τὸ εὐσχημονέστερον, καθὸ δὴ καὶ Μένανδροσ ἐν Παρακαταθήκῃ ἀπὸ τῶν ἑταιρῶν τοὺσ ἑταίρουσ διαστέλλων φησί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 28 3:5)
  • δεῖ δ’ ὅμωσ πειρᾶσθαι καὶ πρὸσ τὰ παρηγοροῦντα τρέπειν τὴν ψυχήν, ὡσ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ ἄνδρασ γεγεννηκότασ καὶ πεφυκότασ αὐτοὺσ ἐκ τοιούτων ἑτέρων καλόν ἐστιν τὰ δείν’ εὐσχημονέστερον τῶν ἄλλων φέροντασ ὁρᾶσθαι καὶ πάσῃ τύχῃ χρωμένουσ ὁμοίουσ εἶναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 44:2)
  • μὴ ἀτιμάσωμεν δὲ εἰπεῖν, εἰ καί τῳ σμικρότερον δοκεῖ εἶναι, ὅτι καὶ εὐσχημονέστερον ἐνταῦθα οὗ χρὴ τὸν ἄνδρα εὐσχημονέστερον φαίνεσθαι, οὗ ἅμα καὶ δεινότεροσ τοῖσ ἐχθροῖσ φανεῖται διὰ τὴν εὐσχημοσύνην. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 25:3)

Synonyms

  1. with an outside show of goodness

  2. noble

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

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