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κάτοπτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: katoptos

Principal Part: κάτοπτος κάτοπτον

Structure: κατοπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ὄψομαι, fut. of ὁράω

Sense

  1. to be seen, visible
  2. in view of or looking down over

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πέμπουσι δ ἀνδαίοντες ἀφθόνῳ μένει φλογὸς μέγαν πώγωνα, καὶ Σαρωνικοῦ πορθμοῦ κάτοπτον πρῶν ὑπερβάλλειν πρόσω φλέγουσαν: (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:12)
  • ἐπεγένετο δὲ καὶ ἄλλος ὄχλος συχνὸς, καὶ γάρ τις καὶ διάδοσις ἔτυχεν ἔξω πυλῶν οὖσα καὶ πάντ ἦν κάτοπτα ἀπὸ τῆς γεφύρας. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:6)
  • ἐρυμνὸν γάρ ἐστι καὶ λῃστρικόν, κάτοπτον δὲ ἐκ πολλοῦ τοῖς προσπλέουσι, καλεῖται δὲ [καὶ] Διάνιον, οἱο῀ν Ἀρτεμίσιον, ἔχον σιδηρεῖα εὐφυῆ πλησίον καὶ νησίδια Πλανησίαν καὶ Πλουμβαρίαν καὶ λιμνοθάλατταν ὑπερκειμένην, ἔχουσαν ἐν κύκλῳ σταδίους τετρακοσίους. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 4 12:9)
  • καὶ δύο μὲν ἡμέρας αὐτῷ συνώδευσαν οἱ οἰκέται, τῇ τρίτῃ δὲ ὡς κάτοπτον ἦν αὐτῷ τὸ ὄρος, καταλιπὼν ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ τοὺς συνόντας μετὰ μόνου τοῦ παιδὸς παραγίνεται εἰς τὸ ὄρος, ἐφ οὗ τὸ ἱερὸν Δαβίδης ὁ βασιλεὺς ὕστερον ἱδρύεται. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 291:1)
  • καὶ τοῦτο ἦν τὸ ποιοῦν αὐτὸ μηδενὶ κάτοπτον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 158:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be seen

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

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