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μεγαλοψυχία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλοψυχία

Structure: μεγαλοψυχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from megalo/yu_xos

Sense

  1. greatness of soul, magnanimity, arrogance
  2. magnificence

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ μὲν οὖν δῆμοσ ἐξεπλάγη τὴν μεγαλοψυχίαν τοῦ νεανίσκου, καὶ περιχαρὴσ ἦν ὡσ δι’ ἐτῶν ὁμοῦ τι διακοσίων πεφηνότοσ ἀξίου τῆσ Σπάρτησ βασιλέωσ· (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 10 1:1)
  • οὐδενὸσ δ’ ἧττον αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐλευθεριότητα καὶ τὴν μεγαλοψυχίαν ἐπῄνουν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, πολὺ μὲν ἀργύριον, πολὺ δὲ χρυσίον ἐκ τῶν βασιλικῶν ἠθροισμένον οὐδ’ ἰδεῖν ἐθελήσαντοσ, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ταμίαισ εἰσ τὸ δημόσιον παραδόντοσ. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 28 6:1)
  • ὄψεσθε γὰρ ἐν αὐτοῖσ μεγαλοψυχίαν καὶ γενναιότητα ἀξίαν καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ τοῦ γενέσθαι Κηφισοῦ θυγατέρα. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 134:3)
  • καὶ πολλὰ μὲν εὐθὺσ ἐν τῷ φιλοφρονεῖσθαι καὶ ἀσπάζεσθαι παρόντα, πλείω δὲ ἔτι μεταστάντοσ ἐγκώμια διῆλθεν αὐτοῦ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ, ὥστε πάντασ ἐπιστρεφομένουσ καὶ προσέχοντασ ἤδη τῷ Κάτωνι, θαυμάζειν ἐξ ὧν πρότερον κατεφρονεῖτο, καὶ πρᾳότητα καὶ μεγαλοψυχίαν ἀναθεωρεῖν. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 14 2:1)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα <ἃ> κατὰ τὴν γειτνίασιν καὶ ὁμοιότητα μέχρι του λανθάνει πόρρω προϊόντα, καὶ περὶ τὴν μεγαλοψυχίαν ταὐτὸ συμβέβηκεν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 93:1)

Synonyms

  1. greatness of soul

  2. magnificence

Related

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

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