Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μισοπόνηρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισοπόνηρος μισοπόνηρον

Structure: μισοπονηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hating knaves

Examples

  • ἐμφανίζει δ’ αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ σκαιόν, ἔτι δὲ μισάνθρωπον Ἀντιφάνησ ἐν Μισοπονήρῳ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐν τῷ βίῳ κακίστουσ τὴν σύγκρισιν αὐτῶν ποιούμενοσ διὰ τούτων εἶτ’ οὐ σοφοὶ δῆτ’ εἰσὶν οἱ Σκύθαι σφόδρα, οἳ γενομένοισιν εὐθέωσ τοῖσ παιδίοισ διδόασιν ἵππων καὶ βοῶν πίνειν γάλα; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 91)
  • ταῦτ’ εἰπὼν οὐκ ἐφύλαξεν ἐν τῷ μισοπονήρῳ τὸ μέτριον, ἀλλ’ ὡσ εἶχεν ὀργῆσ ὠθεῖ διὰ τῶν πλευρῶν αὐτῆσ τὸ ξίφοσ, ἀποκτείνασ δὲ τὴν ἀδελφὴν παρῆν ὡσ τὸν πατέρα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 21 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. hating knaves

Related

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

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