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κακοδαίμων

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακοδαίμων κακοδαίμων κακοδαῖμον

Structure: κακοδαιμων (Stem)

Sense

  1. having or being possessed by an evil genius/spirit.
  2. ill-starred, wretched
  3. (substantive) an evil genius

Examples

  • "^ πεπείκασι γὰρ αὑτοὺσ οἱ κακοδαίμονεσ τὸ μὲν ὅλον ἀθάνατοι ἔσεσθαι καὶ βιώσεσθαι τὸν ἀεὶ χρόνον, παρ’ ὃ καὶ καταφρονοῦσιν τοῦ θανάτου καὶ ἑκόντεσ αὑτοὺσ ἐπιδιδόασιν οἱ πολλοί. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:21)
  • ἄθλιοι καὶ κακοδαίμονεσ· (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 2:3)
  • ὦ κακοδαίμονεσ, τί κάθησθ’ ἀβέλτεροι, ἡμέτερα κέρδη τῶν σοφῶν ὄντεσ, λίθοι, ἀριθμόσ, πρόβατ’ ἄλλωσ, ἀμφορῆσ νενησμένοι; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics22)
  • ἀγανακτούντων δὲ τοῦ μάντεωσ καί τινων ἄλλων καὶ καταρωμένων αὐτῷ, "τί μαίνεσθε, ἔφη, κακοδαίμονεσ; (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 226:1)
  • Διονυσόδωροσ δὲ ὁ Τροιζήνιοσ ἐλέγχων αὐτὸν ἀντεκτίθησι τὴν ἀληθινὴν οὕτωσ ἔχουσαν τίσ πατέρ’ αἰνήσει, εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονεσ υἱοί ; (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 1 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. having or being possessed by an evil genius

  2. ill-starred

  3. an evil genius

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