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παμπόνηρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παμπόνηρος παμπόνηρον

Structure: παμπονηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. all-depraved, thoroughly knavish, very ill

Examples

  • ἢν δέ ποτε καὶ ἐπινεύσῃ τινὶ καὶ πλούσιον ποιῇ, πολὺ τὸ ἄκριτον ἐνταῦθα, καὶ τοὺσ ἀγαθοὺσ ἐνίοτε καὶ συνετοὺσ ἀφεὶσ ὁ δὲ παμπονήροισ τε καὶ ἀνοήτοισ ἀνδράσι περιχεῖ τὸν πλοῦτον, μαστιγίαισ ἢ ἀνδρογύνοισ τοῖσ πλείστοισ αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 3:3)
  • καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὠχρὸσ ἡμῖν ἐφαίνου καὶ φροντίδοσ ἀνάπλεωσ, συνεσπακὼσ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ πρὸσ τὸ ἔθοσ τῶν λογισμῶν καὶ ἀποδράσεσθαι ἀπειλῶν, εἰ καιροῦ λάβοιο, παρ’ αὐτῶν καὶ ὅλωσ τὸ πρᾶγμα ὑπέρδεινον ἐδόκει σοι, ἐν χαλκῷ ἢ σιδηρῷ τῷ θαλάμῳ καθάπερ τὴν Δανάην παρθενεύεσθαι ὑπ’ ἀκριβέσι καὶ παμπονήροισ παιδαγωγοῖσ ἀνατρεφόμενον , τῷ Τόκῳ καὶ τῷ Λογισμῷ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 13:5)

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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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