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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

  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ καθῆκεν ὁ τῶν ἀρχαιρεσιῶν καιρόσ, ὁ μὲν Αἰμίλιοσ ἔμεινεν ἐπὶ στρατοπέδου δι’ αἰσχύνησ ἔχων ἐπὶ συμφοραῖσ οὐκ εὐσχήμοσιν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν εἰσελθεῖν τὸ κράτιστον ἀπολωλεκὼσ τῆσ στρατιᾶσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 87 1:1)
  • Βιβλίον πᾶσ ἂν ἥδιον ἀναγνῴη καὶ ῥᾷον τὸ εὐσημοτέροισ γράμμασι γεγραμμένον οὐκοῦν καὶ λόγουσ πᾶσ ἄν τισ ῥᾷον ἀκούσειε τοὺσ εὐσχήμοσιν ἅμα καὶ εὐπρεπέσιν ὀνόμασι σεσημασμένουσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 1:1)

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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