Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κολαστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολαστικός κολαστική κολαστικόν

Structure: κολαστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kola/zw

Sense

  1. corrective

Examples

  • ἔστι δὲ τοῦ ὀργίλου μὴ δύνασθαι φέρειν μήτε τὰσ μικρὰσ ὀλιγωρήσεισ μήτε ἐλαττώσεισ, εἶναι δὲ κολαστικὸν καὶ τιμωρητικὸν καὶ εὐκίνητον πρὸσ ὀργὴν καὶ ὑπὸ ἔργου καὶ ὑπὸ λόγου τοῦ τυχόντοσ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 30:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ ἀρετῆσ καὶ τὸ εὐεργετεῖν τοὺσ ἀξίουσ, καὶ τὸ φιλεῖν τοὺσ ἀγαθούσ, καὶ τὸ μήτε κολαστικὸν εἶναι μήτε τιμωρητικόν, ἀλλὰ ἵλεων καὶ εὐμενικὸν καὶ συγγνωμονικόν. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 45:1)
  • ὁρᾶτε δὲ καὶ τοὺσ νομοθέτασ τῷ κολαστικῷ εἴδει τὸ πλέον νέμοντασ, ὡσ τῶν γε ἄλλων οὐδὲν ὄφελοσ, εἰ μὴ ὁ φόβοσ προσείη καὶ ἐλπὶσ τῆσ κολάσεωσ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 8:1)
  • τὸ δὲ κολαστικὸν ἐρινυῶδεσ καὶ δαιμονικόν, οὐ θεῖον οὐδ’ ὀλύμπιον. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 9 18:2)
  • τὸ δὲ κολαστικὸν ἐρινυῶδεσ καὶ δαιμονικόν, οὐ θεῖον οὐδ’ ὀλύμπιον. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 9 6:1)

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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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