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κόσμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόσμιος κόσμιᾱ κόσμιον

Structure: κοσμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/smos

Sense

  1. well-ordered, regular, moderate, a regular practice
  2. orderly, well-behaved, regular, discreet, quiet, decorum, decency, order, regularly, decently, orderly

Examples

  • καὶ τό γε πρῶτον ἰδιώτησ καὶ τῶν βασιλικῶν κοσμίων ἔρημοσ ἐπεφοίτα ταῖσ πόλεσι, καί τισ αὐτὸν ἐν Θήβαισ τοιοῦτον θεασάμενοσ ἐχρήσατο τοῖσ Εὐριπίδου στίχοισ οὐκ ἀηδῶσ· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 45 3:1)
  • καὶ ἀκολάστων μὲν πασῶν οὐσῶν ἐν δημοκρατίᾳ νικᾷ ζῆν, κοσμίων δ’ οὐσῶν ἥκιστα ἐν ταύτῃ βιωτέον, ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ δὲ πολὺ πρῶτόν τε καὶ ἄριστον, πλὴν τῆσ ἑβδόμησ· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 278:1)
  • κοσμίων τε πατέρων χρὴ προθυμεῖσθαι γίγνεσθαι κηδεστὴν τὸν αὑτῷ συνειδότα ἰταμώτερον ἅμα καὶ θᾶττον τοῦ δέοντοσ πρὸσ πάσασ τὰσ πράξεισ φερόμενον· (Plato, Laws, book 6 152:3)
  • οὕτω δὴ καὶ περὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ τοὺσ πολιτικοὺσ οὐχ ὁ σεμνότατοσ οὐδ’ ᾧ τῶν ῥημάτων ὁ νοῦσ ἡγεῖτο, οὐδ’ ὃσ ἄνευ μὲν φρονήματοσ οὐκ ᾤετο δεῖν λέγειν, τὸ φρόνημα δ’ ἐξ ἁπάντων ὧν ἑαυτῷ συνῄδει δικαίωσ ἐκέκτητο, οὐχ οὗτοσ ἦν ὁ λάλουσ ἀντὶ κοσμίων ποιήσασ, ἀλλὰ οὗτοσ ὁ κωλύων εἶναι λάλουσ τὸ καθ’ αὑτόν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 18:5)

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

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