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ὅσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅσιος

Structure: ὁσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. pious, hallowed, sanctioned by the gods, (as opposed to δίκαιος "sanctioned by human law")
  2. of things which are allowed by divine law but not sacred: profane (as opposed to ἱερός "sacred to the gods")
  3. of persons: pious, devout, sinless

Examples

  • ὁσιώτερον γοῦν τῇ θεῷ πέσοιεν ἄν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode49)
  • οὔτε γὰρ δικαιότερον περὶ τὰ συμβόλαια γιγνώσκουσιν ἕτερον Κίλικεσ ἐν τοῖσ τότε χρόνοισ γενόμενον, οὔτε πρὸσ τὸ θεῖον ὁσιώτερον οὔτε λυπηρότερον ἐχθροῖσ ἢ βεβαιότερον φίλοισ· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 7:1)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ἐνθάδε σοι φαίνεται ταῦτα πράττοντι ἄμεινον εἶναι οὐδὲ δικαιότερον οὐδὲ ὁσιώτερον, οὐδὲ ἄλλῳ τῶν σῶν οὐδενί, οὔτε ἐκεῖσε ἀφικομένῳ ἄμεινον ἔσται. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 71:2)
  • ἅπαντα γὰρ ταῦτα ἀκριβῶσ ἂν μαθόντεσ ἥδιον καὶ ὁσιώτερον Ἀγοράτου τουτουὶ καταψηφίζοισθε. (Lysias, Speeches, 5:1)
  • ἢ τί ἀπολαύσαισ ἂν τῆσ ἀρχῆσ, εἰ μόνοσ ἄμοιροσ εἰήσ ἑστίασ, οὗ οὔτε ὁσιώτερον χωρίον ἐν ἀνθρώποισ οὔτε ἥδιον οὔτε οἰκειότερόν ἐστιν οὐδέν; (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 66:2)

Synonyms

  1. pious

  2. of persons

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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