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παλίμβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλίμβολος παλίμβολον

Structure: παλιμβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ba/llw

Sense

  1. thrown back, reversed, untrustworthy, uncertain, unstable, instability

Examples

  • εὐθὺσ οὖν ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδησ ἐνέκειτο μετὰ κραυγῆσ καὶ ὀργῆσ, ὥσπερ οὐκ ἀδικῶν, ἀλλ’ ἀδικούμενοσ, ἀπίστουσ καὶ παλιμβόλουσ ἀποκαλῶν καὶ μηδὲν ὑγιὲσ μήτε πρᾶξαι μήτ’ εἰπεῖν ἥκοντασ, ἐπηγανάκτει δ’ ἡ βουλή, καὶ ὁ δῆμοσ ἐχαλέπαινε, τὸν δὲ Νικίαν ἔκπληξισ εἶχε καὶ κατήφεια τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῆσ μεταβολῆσ, ἀγνοοῦντα τὴν ἀπάτην καὶ τὸν δόλον. (Plutarch, , chapter 14 9:1)

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

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