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ὀξύχολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξύχολος ὀξύχολον

Structure: ὀξυχολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quick to anger

Examples

  • τὸ δ’ ὀξύχολον καὶ μικραίτιον καὶ πρὸσ ὀργὴν ῥᾴδιον ὑπὲρ τὰ βρεφύλλια τὰ νεογνά· (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 19:7)
  • "γένοσ γάρ τι ἀνθρώπων ἐστὶν οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ τῷ βίῳ ἐπιπολάσαν ἀργὸν φιλόνεικον κενόδοξον ὀξύχολον ὑπόλιχνον ὑπόμωρον τετυφωμένον ὕβρεωσ ἀνάπλεων καὶ ἵνα καθ’ Ὅμηρον εἴπω ’ ἐτώσιον ἄχθοσ ἀρούρησ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 29:2)

Synonyms

  1. quick to anger

Related

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

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