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ὀψιμαθία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀψιμαθία

Structure: ὀψιμαθι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o)yimaqh/s

Sense

  1. late-gotten learning

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "κομψῶσ δὲ καὶ τοῦ Φιλίππου τὴν ὀψιμαθίαν ἅμα καὶ περιεργίαν ὁ ψάλτησ ἐπέσχεν οἰομένου γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐξελέγχειν τοῦ Φιλίππου περὶ κρουμάτων καὶ ἁρμονιῶν μὴ γένοιτό σοι εἶπεν ὦ βασιλεῦ, κακῶσ οὕτωσ, ἵν’ ἐμοῦ σὺ ταῦτ’ εἰδῇσ βέλτιον σκώπτειν γὰρ ἑαυτὸν δοκῶν, ἐκεῖνον ἀλύπωσ ἐνουθέτησε. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 17:6)
  • ὁ δὲ Τίμαιοσ περὶ τοῦτο τὸ μέροσ τῆσ ἀλογίασ οὐ μόνον ἀπειρίαν, ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον ὀψιμαθίαν δοκεῖ μοι πολλὴν ἐπιφαίνειν, ὅσ γε, διότι θύουσιν ἵππον, εὐθέωσ ὑπέλαβε τοῦτο ποιεῖν αὐτοὺσ διὰ τὸ τὴν Τροίαν ἀφ’ ἵππου δοκεῖν ἑαλωκέναι. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 4c 1:2)

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

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