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παραιφάμενος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραιφάμενος παραιφάμενη παραιφάμενον

Structure: παραιφαμεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic part. mid. of para/fhmi

Sense

  1. exhorting, encouraging
  2. rebuking

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τό γ’ ἄκουσε βαρύκτυποσ εὐρύοπα Ζεύσ, εἰσ Ἔρεβοσ πέμψε χρυσόρραπιν Ἀργειφόντην, ὄφρ’ Αἴδην μαλακοῖσι παραιφάμενοσ ἐπέεσσιν ἁγνὴν Περσεφόνειαν ὑπὸ ζόφου ἠερόεντοσ ἐσ φάοσ ἐξαγάγοι μετὰ δαίμονασ, ὄφρα ἑ μήτηρ ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἰδοῦσα μεταλήξειε χόλοιο. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 35:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὦκα, παραιφάμενοσ τάδε πάντα, θαρσαλέωσ ὀρόθυνον ἐπιμνήσασθαι ἀέθλου. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 14:26)
  • ἀλλ’ εἴ τίσ με καὶ ἄλλοσ ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἐνίπτοι δαέρων ἢ γαλόων ἢ εἰνατέρων εὐπέπλων, ἢ ἑκυρή, ἑκυρὸσ δὲ πατὴρ ὣσ ἤπιοσ αἰεί, ἀλλὰ σὺ τὸν ἐπέεσσι παραιφάμενοσ κατέρυκεσ σῇ τ’ ἀγανοφροσύνῃ καὶ σοῖσ ἀγανοῖσ ἐπέεσσι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 72:7)

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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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