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ὀξύθυμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξύθυμος ὀξύθυμον

Structure: ὀξυθυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quick to anger, choleric, sharp to punish

Examples

  • καὶ τῶν ἠδικημένων καὶ ἐχθρῶν ἢ ἀντιπάλων οὐχ οἱ ὀξύθυμοι καὶ παρρησιαστικοί, ἀλλὰ οἱ πρᾶοι καὶ εἴρωνεσ καὶ πανοῦργοι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 5 11:3)
  • εὐμετάβολοι δὲ καὶ ἁψίκοροι πρὸσ τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ, καὶ σφόδρα μὲν ἐπιθυμοῦσι ταχέωσ δὲ παύονται ὀξεῖαι γὰρ αἱ βουλήσεισ καὶ οὐ μεγάλαι, ὥσπερ αἱ τῶν καμνόντων δίψαι καὶ πεῖναι, καὶ θυμικοὶ καὶ ὀξύθυμοι καὶ οἱοῖ ἀκολουθεῖν τῇ ὀργῇ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 12 4:1)
  • Καὶ γὰρ δὴ νοσέουσι οἱ φύσι ὀργίλοι, ὀξύθυμοι, Ῥέκται, εὐμαρέεσ, ἱλαροὶ, παιδιώδεεσ · ἀτὰρ καὶ οἷσι ἐσ ἐναντίην ἰδέην ἡ φύσισ Ῥέπει, ὁκόσοι νωθροὶ, ἐπίλυποι, βραδεῖσ μὲν ἐκμαθεῖν, ἐπίμονοι δὲ προσκαμεῖν, ποτὶ καὶ μαθόντεσ, ἀμνήμονεσ, οἵδε καὶ μελαγχολῆσαι ἑτοιμότεροι, οἱ δὲ καὶ πρόσθεν ἐκμαίνονται. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 58)

Synonyms

  1. quick to anger

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

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