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φιλοπαίσμων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοπαίσμων φιλοπαίσμον

Structure: φιλοπαισμων (Stem)

Etym.: = filopai/gmwn, Plat.

Sense

Examples

  • φιλοπαίσμονεσ γὰρ καὶ οἱ θεοί. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 139:1)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν οὐ πρῶτον μὲν τοῦτο περὶ αὐτῶν ἀνομολογητέον, εἰ δυνατὰ ἢ οὔ, καὶ δοτέον ἀμφισβήτησιν εἴτε τισ φιλοπαίσμων εἴτε σπουδαστικὸσ ἐθέλει ἀμφισβητῆσαι, πότερον δυνατὴ φύσισ ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη ἡ θήλεια τῇ τοῦ ἄρρενοσ γένουσ κοινωνῆσαι εἰσ ἅπαντα τὰ ἔργα ἢ οὐδ’ εἰσ ἕν, ἢ εἰσ τὰ μὲν οἱά τε, εἰσ δὲ τὰ οὔ, καὶ τοῦτο δὴ τὸ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον ποτέρων ἐστίν; (Plato, Republic, book 5 73:1)

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

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