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παράβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παράβολος παράβολη παράβολον

Structure: παραβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: paraba/llw

Sense

  1. thrown in by the way, deceitful
  2. exposing oneself
  3. venturesome, reckless
  4. hazardous, perilous

Examples

  • πονηρὸσ εἶ πόρρω τέχνησ καὶ παράβολοσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 5:16)
  • παράβολοσ δὲ καὶ ἡ ἀπόδειξισ ὅτι τὸ ἓν αὐτὸ τὸ ἀγαθόν, ὅτι οἱ ἀριθμοὶ ἐφίενται· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 103:3)
  • πολὺ δ’ ἔτι μᾶλλον γενόμενοσ χιλίαρχοσ περιεποιήσατο δόξαν, φιλοκίνδυνοσ μὲν ὢν καὶ παράβολοσ ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ, ἰταμὸσ δὲ καὶ πρόχειροσ ἐν ταῖσ δημηγοίαισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 3 2:3)
  • νύκτωρ δὲ κόνιν αἴροντεσ χεροῖν ὀλίγην ἐπερρίπτουν τοῖσ σώμασι, καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέραν εἴ τισ παράβολοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 376:2)
  • πολεμιστὴσ δέ τισ αὐτὸσ ἦν καὶ φύσει παράβολοσ κατά τε ἀλκὴν τοσοῦτοσ, ὡσ ὀλίγῳ τὰ τῆσ τόλμησ διαμαρτάνειν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 524:2)

Synonyms

  1. thrown in by the way

  2. exposing oneself

  3. venturesome

Related

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

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