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κερδώ

Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κερδώ

Etym.: ke/rdos

Sense

  1. the wily one, the fox

Examples

  • Αἰγεί̈δη φράσσαι κυναλώπεκα, μή σε δολώσῃ, λαίθαργον ταχύπουν, δολίαν κερδὼ πολύιδριν. (Aristotle, Episode 2:7)
  • ἔφη γὰρ ἄνθρωπόν τινα ἐπὶ τῇ ἠϊόνι καθεζόμενον ἐπὶ τὴν κυματωγὴν ἀριθμεῖν τὰ κύματα, σφαλέντα δὲ καὶ ἄχθεσθαι καὶ ἀνιᾶσθαι, ἄχρι δὴ τὴν κερδὼ παραστᾶσαν εἰπεῖν αὐτῷ, Τί, ὦ γενναῖε, ἀνιᾷ τῶν παρελθόντων ἕνεκα, δέον τὰ ἐντεῦθεν ἀρξάμενον ἀριθμεῖν ἀμελήσαντα ἐκείνων; (Lucian, 175:1)

Synonyms

  1. the wily one

Related

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

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