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παραφρόνιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραφρόνιμος παραφρόνιμον

Structure: παραφρονιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = para/frwn, Soph.

Sense

Examples

  • ὦναξ, εἶπον μὲν οὐχ ἅπαξ μόνον, ἴσθι δὲ παραφρόνιμον, ἄπορον ἐπὶ φρόνιμα πεφάνθαι μ’ ἄν, εἴ σ’ ἐνοσφιζόμαν, ὅσ τ’ ἐμὰν γᾶν φίλαν ἐν πόνοισ ἀλύουσαν κατ’ ὀρθὸν οὔρισασ, τανῦν τ’ εὔπομποσ, ἂν γένοιο. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, antistrophe 21)

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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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