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φορτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορτικός φορτική φορτικόν

Structure: φορτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fo/rtos

Sense

  1. of the nature of a burden, burdensome, wearisome
  2. coarse, vulgar, common, low, vulgar, ad captandum vulgus, out of vulgar arrogance, coarsely, vulgarly, like a clown

Examples

  • καὶ θαυμάζειν ἄξιον, τί δή ποτε παθὼν ὁ Θεόφραστοσ τῶν φορτικῶν καὶ περιέργων αὐτὸν οἰέται ζηλωτὴν γενέσθαι λόγων καὶ τὸ ποιητικὸν διώκειν μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ ἀληθινόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 151)
  • εἶτ’ ἀνεχώρουν ὑπ’ ἀνδρῶν φορτικῶν ἡττηθεὶσ οὐκ ἄξιοσ ὤν· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parabasis, parabasis3)
  • "πλουτείτω δὲ Τίμων μόνοσ καὶ ὑπεροράτω ἁπάντων καὶ τρυφάτω μόνοσ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν κολακείασ καὶ ἐπαίνων φορτικῶν ἀπηλλαγμένοσ· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 42:12)
  • "καὶ μακάριον τὸν βασιλέα ἀπεκάλουν ὅτι ἔξεστιν αὐτῷ τούτων ἀπολαύειν, καὶ ἕτερα τούτοισ παραπλήσια πάνυ πολλὰ τῶν φορτικῶν ἐποίουν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 86 1:11)
  • ἔστι δὲ ἄτοπον, εἴ τισ αὐτὸσ μὲν οὐ δύναται φέρειν ἐνίουσ τῶν εὐτυχούντων, ἀλλὰ μικρὸν χρόνον ὁμιλήσασ ἀφίσταται, καὶ μᾶλλον αἱρεῖται τὴν αὑτοῦ πενίαν ὅπωσ ἂν ἐνδέχηται φέρειν ἢ φορτικῶν καὶ ἀνοήτων ἀνέχεσθαι τρόπων· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 9:2)

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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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