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παραμύθιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραμύθιον παραμύθιου

Structure: παραμυθι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from paramu_qe/omai

Sense

  1. an address, exhortation
  2. an assuagement, abatement, of

Declension

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

  • ἐάν τε ὀξέωσ τελευτήσωσιν, οὐχ ἕξουσιν ἐλπίδα, οὐδὲ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ διαγνώσεωσ παραμύθιον. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 3:18)
  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ παραμύθιον οὐ μικρὸν ἔσται αὐτῇ, ὅτι μετ̓ ὀλίγον τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ ἡ Ἰνὼ πείσεται καὶ ἐμπεσεῖται ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀθάμαντοσ διωκομένη ἐσ τὸ πέλαγοσ ἀπ̓ ἄκρου τοῦ Κιθαιρῶνοσ, καθ̓ ὅπερ καθήκει ἐσ τὴν θάλατταν, ἔχουσα καὶ τὸν υἱὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ ἀγκάλησ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, poseidon and nereides, chapter 1 2:1)
  • "πατρὶ πενθοῦντι παραμύθιον ἐλθὲ καὶ πρεσβυτικῇ χειρὶ δυστυχούσῃ συναγώνισαι. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 21:5)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐκθήσω τὸ τεχθέν, καὶ μάλιστα εἰ ἄρρεν γένοιτο, ἀλλὰ Πάμφιλον ὀνομάσασα ἐγὼ μὲν ἕξω παραμύθιον τοῦ ἔρωτοσ, σοὶ δὲ ὀνειδιεῖ ποτε προσελθὼν ἐκεῖνοσ, ὡσ ἄπιστοσ γεγένησαι περὶ τὴν ἀθλίαν αὐτοῦ μητέρα. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:4)
  • σχολὴ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἡσυχία καὶ διατριβὴ περὶ λόγουσ ἡδονήν τινα καὶ θεωρίαν ἔχοντασ εὐπρεπέστατον ἀνδρὶ πρεσβύτῃ καὶ πεπαυμένῳ πολέμων καὶ πολιτείασ παραμύθιον τὸ δ’ ἐφ’ ἡδονὴν, ὡσ τέλοσ, καταστρέψαντα τὰσ καλὰσ πράξεισ ἤδη λοιπὸν Ἀφροδίσια τῶν πολέμων καὶ στρατηγιῶν ἄγοντα παίζειν καὶ τρυφᾶν οὐκ ἄξια τῆσ καλῆσ Ἀκαδημείασ, οὐδέ τὸν Ξενοκράτη ζηλοῦντοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐγκεκλικότοσ πρὸσ τὸν Ἐπίκουρον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon, chapter 1 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. an address

Related

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

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