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μηχανητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηχανητικός μηχανητική μηχανητικόν

Structure: μηχανητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = mhxaniko/s, Xen.

Sense

Declension

First/Second 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

  • χρὴ δὲ μηχανητικὸν εἶναι καὶ τοῦ πολλοὺσ μὲν φαίνεσθαι τοὺσ ὀλίγουσ ἱππέασ, πάλιν δ’ ὀλίγουσ τοὺσ πολλούσ, καὶ τοῦ δοκεῖν παρόντα μὲν ἀπεῖναι, ἀπόντα δὲ παρεῖναι, καὶ τοῦ μὴ τὰ τῶν πολεμίων μόνον κλέπτειν ἐπίστασθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ ἑαυτοῦ ἱππέασ ἅμα κλέπτοντα ἐξ ἀπροσδοκήτου τοῖσ πολεμίοισ ἐπιτίθεσθαι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 3:1)
  • ἐν Ἐφέσῳ δὲ ἤδη ὄντοσ αὐτοῦ, ὡσ ἐπὶ Καρίαν πορευομένου, Δερκυλίδασ ἄρξων ἀφίκετο ἐπὶ τὸ στράτευμα, ἀνὴρ δοκῶν εἶναι μάλα μηχανητικόσ· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 11:1)

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

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