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φρόνιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φρόνιμος φρόνιμον

Structure: φρονιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in one's right mind, in one's senses
  2. staid, unmoved, discreet, presence of mind
  3. wise, sensible, prudent, prudence, wisdom

Examples

  • τουτὶ μὲν ὀρθῶσ καὶ φρονίμωσ ἤδη λέγεισ· (Aristotle, Episode 1:2)
  • ὁ δὲ Βροῦτοσ τὸν ἔσχατον ἀγῶνα ὑπὲρ τῶν ὅλων οὔθ’ ὑποστῆναι δοκεῖ φρονίμωσ οὔτε σφαλεὶσ ἐπανόρθωσιν εὑρεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἀπεῖπε καὶ προεῖτο τὰσ ἐλπίδασ, οὐδ’ ὅσον Πομπήϊοσ ἐπιτολμήσασ τῇ τύχῃ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Dion and Brutus, chapter 3 2:1)
  • ἔπειτα δ’ ὅπωσ φρονίμωσ πρὸσ ἄνδρ’ ὁρῶν πτερώσεισ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Choral, antistrophe 15)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ τὴν Κίρκην ὤνησαν οἱ καταφαρμακευθέντεσ, οὐδ’ ἐχρήσατο πρὸσ οὐδὲν αὐτοῖσ ὑσὶ καὶ ὄνοισ γενομένοισ, τὸν δ’ Ὀδυσσέα νοῦν ἔχοντα καὶ συνόντα φρονίμωσ ὑπερηγάπησεν. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 5 1:1)
  • στωικὸν δὲ δόγμα ἐστὶν ὅτι τε πάντα εὖ ποιήσει ὁ σοφὸσ καὶ φακῆν φρονίμωσ ἀρτύσει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 472)

Synonyms

  1. in one's right mind

Related

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

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