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φυσιογνώμων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυσιογνώμων φυσιογνώμονος

Structure: φυσιογνωμων (Stem)

Sense

  1. judging of, character by his features

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν καὶ ἡμεῖσ μὴ χείρουσ μηδὲ φαυλότεροι περὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ φανῶμεν ἢ ἐκεῖνοι περὶ τὰσ αὑτῶν τέχνασ, τῷ πλάττειν καὶ ἀφομοιοῦν τοὺσ τρόπουσ τοῦ τριπλοῦ δαίμονοσ τῶν τριῶν βίων, τὴν ἐναντίαν ἕξιν καὶ ἀντίστροφον ἐπιδεικνύμενοι τῆσ τῶν λεγομένων φυσιογνωμόνων ἐμπειρίασ καὶ μαντικῆσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 101:1)

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

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