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εὐτράπελος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐτράπελος εὐτράπελον

Structure: εὐτραπελ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/pw

Sense

  1. easily turning or changing, a dexterous, ready, dexterously, without awkwardness
  2. ready with an answer, witty
  3. jesting, ribald
  4. tricky, dishonest

Examples

  • ἆρα δῆτ’ οὐκ αὐτὰ δῆλα τοῖσ πένησιν, ἡ τυραννὶσ ὡσ λάθρᾳ γ’ ἐλάνθαν’ ὑπιοῦσά με, εἰ σύ γ’ ὦ πόνῳ πόνηρε καὶ κομηταμυνία τῶν νόμων ἡμᾶσ ἀπείργεισ ὧν ἔθηκεν ἡ πόλισ, οὔτε τιν’ ἔχων πρόφασιν οὔτε λόγον εὐτράπελον, αὐτὸσ ἄρχων μόνοσ; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, antistrophe2)
  • οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἔχοντά τινα τὴν φρόνησιν τοῦτο μόνον μὴ φρονεῖν ὅτι φρονεῖ μηδὲ γιγνώσκειν ὅτι τὸ ἀγνοεῖν διαπέφευγεν εὐτράπελόν ἐστιν· (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 9 1:1)

Related

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

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