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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

  • ζηλωτὴσ δὲ τῶν εὐτραπέλων λόγων τούτων ἐγένετο ὁ Στρατόνικοσ Σιμωνίδου τοῦ ποιητοῦ, ὥσ φησιν Ἔφοροσ ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ εὑρημάτων, φάσκων καὶ Φιλόξενον τὸν Κυθήριον περὶ τὰ ὅμοια ἐσπουδακέναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 461)
  • οὐκοῦν ἀνάγκη τὸν ὑπὸ τῆσ νόσου ταύτησ ἐχόμενον ὑπεύθυνον περιέρχεσθαι καὶ προσέχειν ἑκάστῳ καὶ δεδοικέναι μή τινα ἑκὼν ἢ ἄκων λυπήσῃ, μάλιστα τῶν ἑτοίμων τινὰ καὶ τῶν εὐτραπέλων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 33:1)
  • ἢ τί μάλιστα ἀκοῦσαι σπεύδετε παρὰ ἀνδρῶν οὐκ εὐτραπέλων οὐδὲ πρὸσ χάριν ὁμιλεῖν εἰδότων οὐδὲ αἱμύλων οὐδὲ ὑπὸ τρυφῆσ ἰόντων ἐπὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 3:2)

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

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