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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

  • ὡσ εὐσχήμονεσ καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεῖσ καὶ ἀρρενωποί. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 87:8)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ Ἀχιλλέωσ καὶ Πατρόκλου μέμνησθε καὶ Ὁμήρου καὶ ἑτέρων ποιητῶν, ὡσ τῶν μὲν δικαστῶν ἀνηκόων παιδείασ ὄντων, ὑμεῖσ δὲ εὐσχήμονέσ τινεσ καὶ περιφρονοῦντεσ ἱστορίᾳ τὸν δῆμον, ἵν’ εἰδῆτε ὅτι καὶ ἡμεῖσ τι ἤδη ἠκούσαμεν καὶ ἐμάθομεν, λέξομέν τι καὶ περὶ τούτων. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1411)

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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