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κηρόπλαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηρόπλαστος κηρόπλαστον

Structure: κηροπλαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. moulded of wax, waxen

Examples

  • καὶ τοῦτ’ ἔχων οἰκέτησ αὐτοῦ λέγοντοσ ὄπισθεν ἑστὼσ ἐνεδίδου τόνον ἐπιεικῆ καὶ πρᾶον, ᾧ τὴν κραυγὴν ἀνεκαλεῖτο καὶ τὸ τραχὺ καὶ τὸ θυμικὸν ἀφῄρει τῆσ φωνῆσ, ὥσπερ ὁ τῶν βουκόλων κηρόπλαστοσ ὀτοβεῖ δόναξ ἀχέτασ ὑπνοδόταν νόμον, ἐπιθέλγων καὶ καθιστὰσ τὴν ὀργὴν τοῦ ῥήτοροσ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 6 2:1)
  • ὑπὸ δὲ κηρόπλαστοσ ὀτοβεῖ δόναξ ἀχέτασ ὑπνοδόταν νόμον· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. moulded of wax

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

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