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ὀλιγανθρωπία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγανθρωπία

Structure: ὀλιγανθρωπι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o)liga/nqrwpos

Sense

  1. scantiness of men

Examples

  • οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων τισ ἠνείχετο τῆσ ἐντεύξεωσ τὴν ἀναβολήν, ἀλλ’ οὕτωσ ἐξεχέοντο πάντεσ ἀθρόοι καὶ πᾶσιν εὐπορώτερον καὶ ῥᾷον ἐδόκει τοῦ μένειν τὸ ἀπιέναι, ὡσ καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτὴν τότε πρῶτον ἐν ἑαυτῇ λαβεῖν ὀλιγανθρωπίασ αἴσθησιν ἰδίαν· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 83:1)

Synonyms

  1. scantiness of men

Related

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

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