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παρακλητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρακλητικός παρακλητική παρακλητικόν

Structure: παρακλητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hortatory

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

  • καὶ αὐτίκα συστραφέντεσ ἀθρόοι καὶ ἀναβοήσαντεσ τὸ παρακλητικὸν τῆσ ἀλλήλων ὀργῆσ τόν τε νεανίσκον ἐξήρπασαν καὶ τοὺσ ῥαβδούχουσ ἀπέστησαν παίοντεσ καὶ τελευτῶντεσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ὑπάτουσ ὡρ́μησαν, καὶ εἰ μὴ καταλιπόντεσ ἐκεῖνοι τὴν ἀγορὰν ἔφυγον, ἀνήκεστον ἄν τι κακὸν ἐξειργάσαντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 39 5:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ συνῆλθον, συναγαγὼν τήν τε Ῥωμαίων βουλὴν καὶ τοὺσ ἀπὸ τῶν πόλεων ἥκοντασ λόγον διεξῆλθε παρακλητικὸν ὁμονοίασ, διδάσκων ὡσ καλὸν μὲν χρῆμα πολλαὶ πόλεισ μιᾷ γνώμῃ χρώμεναι, αἰσχρὰ δ’ ὄψισ συγγενῶν ἀλλήλαισ διαφερομένων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 26 1:2)
  • ἂν παρακλητικὸν οὐδ’ ἐγερτικὸν εἰή. (Plato, Republic, book 7 181:1)
  • λέγων γοῦν παρακλητικὸν τοῖσ Ἀχαιοῖσ ὁ πρεσβύτατοσ αὐτὸσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ δέξασθαι τὴν πρόκλησιν τοῦ Ἕκτοροσ οὐδὲν ἀλλ’ ἢ ἐγκώμια αὑτοῦ διεξέρχεται· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. hortatory

Related

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

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