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κίβδηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κίβδηλος κίβδηλον

Structure: κιβδηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ki/bdos

Sense

  1. adulterated, spurious, base
  2. base, false, spurious, fraudulent, deceitful

Examples

  • Κιβδήλου δ’ ἀνδρὸσ γνῶναι χαλεπώτερον οὐδέν, Κύρν’, οὐδ’ εὐλαβιησ ἔσθ’ ὅτι δεῖ πλέονοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-138958)
  • κατὰ τίνα οὖν ἔτι λόγον δικαιοσύνην ἂν πρὸ μεγίστησ ἀδικίασ αἱροίμεθ’ ἄν, ἣν ἐὰν μετ’ εὐσχημοσύνησ κιβδήλου κτησώμεθα, καὶ παρὰ θεοῖσ καὶ παρ’ ἀνθρώποισ πράξομεν κατὰ νοῦν ζῶντέσ τε καὶ τελευτήσαντεσ, ὡσ ὁ τῶν πολλῶν τε καὶ ἄκρων λεγόμενοσ λόγοσ; (Plato, Republic, book 2 84:1)
  • τὰ Κροῖσοσ ἐπιμεμφόμενοσ τῷ Κύρῳ ἔσ τε τὰ χρηστήρια ἔπεμπε εἰ στρατεύηται ἐπὶ Πέρσασ, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἀπικομένου χρησμοῦ κιβδήλου, ἐλπίσασ πρὸσ ἑωυτοῦ τὸν χρησμὸν εἶναι, ἐστρατεύετο ἐσ τὴν Περσέων μοῖραν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 75 3:1)

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

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