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λωβάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λωβάομαι

Structure: λωβά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Dep.

Sense

  1. to treat despitefully, to outrage, maltreat, to do, despite, to maim, mutilate, to make ruin of, to corrupt, to do despite, act outrageously
  2. mutilated

Examples

  • πότερον δὴ οὖν φῶμεν κατὰ τὸν σὸν λόγον εἰδότασ αὐτοὺσ ἐξαπατᾶν καὶ λωβᾶσθαι τοὺσ νέουσ, ἢ λεληθέναι καὶ ἑαυτούσ; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 135:1)
  • ὃν μὲν γὰρ ἂν ἐθελήσωσιν ἡμῶν τούτων ἑκάτεροι σῴζειν, ὁμοίωσ δὴ σῴζουσιν, ὃν δ’ ἂν λωβᾶσθαι βουληθῶσιν, λωβῶνται τέμνοντεσ καὶ κάοντεσ καὶ προστάττοντεσ ἀναλώματα φέρειν παρ’ ἑαυτοὺσ οἱο͂ν φόρουσ, ὧν σμικρὰ μὲν εἰσ τὸν κάμνοντα καὶ οὐδὲν ἀναλίσκουσιν, τοῖσ δ’ ἄλλοισ αὐτοί τε καὶ οἱ οἰκέται χρῶνται· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 247:3)
  • οὕτω δὴ τύραννόσ τε γέγονε, φαμέν, καὶ βασιλεὺσ καὶ ὀλιγαρχία καὶ ἀριστοκρατία καὶ δημοκρατία, δυσχερανάντων τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὸν ἕνα ἐκεῖνον μόναρχον, καὶ ἀπιστησάντων μηδένα τῆσ τοιαύτησ ἀρχῆσ ἄξιον ἂν γενέσθαι ποτέ, ὥστε ἐθέλειν καὶ δυνατὸν εἶναι μετ’ ἀρετῆσ καὶ ἐπιστήμησ ἄρχοντα τὰ δίκαια καὶ ὅσια διανέμειν ὀρθῶσ πᾶσιν, λωβᾶσθαι δὲ καὶ ἀποκτεινύναι καὶ κακοῦν ὃν ἂν βουληθῇ ἑκάστοτε ἡμῶν· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 267:2)
  • τὸ γὰρ καὶ τοὺσ ἐπιεικεῖσ ἱκανὴν εἶναι λωβᾶσθαι, ἐκτὸσ πάνυ τινῶν ὀλίγων, πάνδεινόν που. (Plato, Republic, book 10 263:2)

Derived

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

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