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λυσιτελούντως

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυσιτελούντως

Etym.: part. pres. of lusitele/w,

Sense

  1. usefully, profitably

Examples

  • ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐχὶ λέγηθ’ ἐμαυτόν, οὐδ’ ἀγνοῶ, οὐ τῶν εὖ πεφυκότων κατὰ ταῦτ’ ὢν ἀνθρώπων, οὐδὲ τῶν λυσιτελούντωσ ἑαυτοῖσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 86:2)
  • τὸ γὰρ τὰσ μὲν δαπάνασ χωρεῖν ἐντελεῖσ ἐκ τῶν οἴκων, τὰ δὲ ἔργα μὴ τελεῖσθαι λυσιτελούντωσ πρὸσ τὴν δαπάνην, ταῦτα οὐκέτι δεῖ θαυμάζειν ἐὰν ἀντὶ τῆσ περιουσίασ ἔνδειαν παρέχηται. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 20 22:2)
  • οὐκοῦν κἂν μὲν πράττῃ ἅ τισ οἶδεν ἢ δοκεῖ εἰδέναι, παρέπηται δὲ τὸ ὠφελίμωσ, καὶ λυσιτελούντωσ ἡμᾶσ ἕξειν καὶ τῇ πόλει καὶ αὐτὸν αὑτῷ; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 50:5)
  • τὰσ μὲν δὴ πολιτικὰσ δωρειὰσ οὕτωσ ἐκεῖνοί τε καλῶσ καὶ λυσιτελούντωσ αὑτοῖσ ἐδίδοσαν καὶ ἡμεῖσ οὐκ ὀρθῶσ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 282:1)
  • καὶ δῆτ’ ἔγωγ’ ἐνεθυμήθην ὡσ λυσιτελούντωσ αὐτῷ Πλάτωνι τὰσ αἰτίασ ἀπολύομαι καὶ ὁποίασ τινὰσ αὐτὸσ καθ’ αὑτοῦ δίδωσι τὰσ λαβὰσ ἐκ τῶν ἐγκλημάτων τούτων, εἴ τισ αὐτὸν βούλοιτο μιμήσασθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 113:3)

Synonyms

  1. usefully

Related

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

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