Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλόπολις

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόπολις

Sense

  1. loving the city
  2. loving one's city, patriotic, patriotism

Examples

  • τίσ οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο φιλόπολίσ τε καὶ φιλόδημοσ ἢ τίσ οὐκ ἂν ἐπιτηδεύσειε τὴν πολιτικὴν καλοκἀγαθίαν ἀναγνοὺσ αὐτοῦ τὸν Πανηγυρικόν; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 51)
  • ὡσ φιλόπολίσ τίσ ἐσθ’ ὁ δαίμων καὶ σοφόσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:27)
  • οἴμ’ ὡσ ἄχθομαι ὅτι χρηστὸσ ὢν καὶ φιλόπολισ πάσχω κακῶσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:40)
  • σὺ φιλόπολισ καὶ χρηστόσ; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:1)
  • ἐθέλω δ’ ἐπὶ πᾶν ἰέναι μετὰ τῶνδ’ ἀρετῆσ ἕνεχ’, αἷσ ἔνι φύσισ, ἔνι χάρισ, ἔνι θράσοσ, ἔνι δὲ σοφόν, ἔνι <δὲ> φιλόπολισ ἀρετὴ φρόνιμοσ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. loving the city

Related

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

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