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φιλόψυχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόψυχος φιλόψυχον

Structure: φιλοψυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: yuxh/

Sense

  1. loving one's life, cowardly, dastardly, faint-hearted

Examples

  • εἰ δὲ μὴ βουλήσομαι, κακὴ φανοῦμαι καὶ φιλόψυχοσ γυνή. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:5)
  • οὐδεὶσ δὲ φίλαυτοσ οὕτωσ ἦν καὶ φιλόψυχοσ παρὰ τὸν τότε καιρόν ὃσ οὐ μᾶλλον ὑπὲρ μόνου Δίωνοσ ἢ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων ἀγωνιῶν ἐφαίνετο, πρώτου πρὸσ τὸν κίνδυνον πορευομένου δι’ αἵματοσ καὶ πυρὸσ καὶ νεκρῶν πολλῶν κειμένων ἐν ταῖσ πλατείαισ. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 46 2:1)
  • τίσ οὕτω τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἐχθρόσ, ἢ τίσ οὕτωσ ἄνανδροσ καὶ φιλόψυχοσ, ὡσ μὴ καὶ περὶ τοῦ μέχρι νῦν ζῆσαι μετανοεῖν; (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 422:2)
  • εἶτα φῂσ εἶναι φιλόψυχοσ καὶ καταψεύδει σαυτοῦ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:13)

Related

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

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