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μετριοπαθής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετριοπαθής μετριοπαθές

Structure: μετριοπαθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pa/qos

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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