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μετριοπαθής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: metriopathēs

Principal Part: μετριοπαθής μετριοπαθές

Structure: μετριοπαθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: πάθος

Sense

  1. moderating one's passions

Examples

  • τὸ γὰρ πρᾳὺ καὶ φαιδρὸν οὐκ ἐπῆν αὐτοῦ τοῖς τρόποις, οὐδὲ τὸ θεραπευτικὸν τῶν πέλας ἔν τ ἀσπασμοῖς καὶ προσαγορεύσεσιν, οὐδὲ δὴ τὸ εὐδιάλλακτον καὶ μετριοπαθές, ὁπότε δι ὀργῆς τῳ γένοιτο, οὐδὲ ἡ πάντα τὰ ἀνθρώπινα ἐπικοσμοῦσα χάρις: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 61 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. moderating one's passions

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

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