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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

  • μὴ δῷσ οὖν κἀμοί, πρὸσ Ἀδώνιδοσ, εἰκάσαι παμπόνηρον ἄνθρωπον, ἁπάσῃ κακίᾳ σύντροφον, ἡμέρᾳ δυσφήμῳ καὶ ἀπαισίῳ ; (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 13:4)
  • ἦ παμπόνηρον ὄψον, ὦ ’ τάν, ὁ γέρανοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 20 2:3)
  • ὃ καλῶσ εἰκάζουσιν οἱ πλεῖστοι κακοήθευμα τοῦ Θεοφάνουσ εἶναι, τάχα μὲν οὐδὲν αὐτῷ τὸν Ῥουτίλιον ἐοικότα μισοῦντοσ, εἰκὸσ δὲ καὶ διὰ Πομπήϊον, οὗ τὸν πατέρα παμπόνηρον ἀπέδειξεν ὁ Ῥουτίλιοσ ἐν ταῖσ ἱστορίαισ. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 37 3:1)

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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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