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κατάκορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάκορος κατάκορον

Structure: κατακορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = katakorh/s

Sense

  1. to excess, intemperately

Examples

  • ζωμὸν μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἄριστον ἡγοῦνται τὸν γλυκύτατον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πικρὰ καὶ δριμέα συμμιγνύουσιν εἰσ δὲ τὸ σῶμα πολλὰσ καὶ κατακόρουσ ἐμβάλλουσιν ἡδονάσ, τὰ μὲν ἀγνοοῦντεσ τὰ δ’ οὐ μνημονεύοντεσ ὅτι τοῖσ ὑγιεινοῖσ καὶ ὠφελίμοισ ἡ φύσισ ἡδονὴν ἄλυπον καὶ ἀμεταμέλητον προστίθησιν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 26 9:2)
  • πρώτη μὲν οὖν αὕτη καταρχὴ τῆσ ἐπὶ καλοκἀγαθίᾳ φήμησ αὐτῷ συνεκύρησε καὶ μεγάλην ἐποίησε προκοπήν, ἅτε τοῦ τῶν γυναικῶν γένουσ καὶ λάλου καὶ κατακοροῦσ ὄντοσ, ἐφ’ ὅ,τι ἂν ὁρμήσῃ. (Polybius, Histories, book 31, chapter 26 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. to excess

Related

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

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