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μικρολόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μικρολόγος

Structure: μικρολογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. reckoning trifles;
  2. caring about petty expenses, penurious
  3. cavilling about trifles, captious

Examples

  • " ἔλεγε τοὺσ μικρολόγουσ τῶν μὲν ὑπαρχόντων ὡσ ἰδίων ἐπιμελεῖσθαι, ὡσ δ’ ἐξ ἀλλοτρίων μηδὲν ὠφελεῖσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. z'. BIWN 5:7)
  • ἡ δὲ περὶ μὲν τῆσ τῶν γονέων φιλανθρωπίασ αὐτῆσ ὀρθῶσ εἰκάζειν αὐτὸν εἶπεν, ἐπεμέμφετο δὲ ὡσ μικρολόγουσ ὑπειληφότα· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 325:1)

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

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