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ὀξυδερκής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξυδερκής ὀξυδερκές

Structure: ὀξυδερκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: de/rkomai

Sense

  1. quick-sighted

Examples

  • ἔχαιρον δ’ αὖ ὥσπερ ^ ἐκ ζοφεροῦ τινοσ ἀέροσ τοῦ βίου τοῦ πρόσθεν ἐσ αἰθρίαν τε καὶ μέγα φῶσ ἀναβλέπων ὥστε δή, τὸ καινότατον, τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ μὲν καὶ τῆσ περὶ αὐτὸν ἀσθενείασ ἐπελανθανόμην, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν ὀξυδερκέστεροσ κατὰ μικρὸν ἐγιγνόμην ἐλελήθειν γάρ τέωσ αὐτὴν τυφλώττουσαν περιφέρων. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 4:4)
  • "Ἡγήσανδροσ δ’ ἱστορεῖ καὶ Ιἕρωνα τὸν τύραννον ἀμβλύτερον κατὰ τὰσ ὄψεισ γενέσθαι καὶ τοὺσ συνδειπνοῦντασ τῶν φίλων ἔχειν ἐπίτηδεσ διαμαρτάνοντασ τῶν ἐδεσμάτων ἵν’ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ χειραγωγῶνται καὶ δοκῇ τῶν ἄλλων ὀξυδερκέστεροσ εἶναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 55 3:18)

Synonyms

  1. quick-sighted

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

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