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περιδεής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιδεής περιδεές

Structure: περιδεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: de/os

Sense

  1. very timid or fearful, of or for, in great fear

Examples

  • "τοὐναντίον δ’ οἱ παλαιοὶ τὸν θεὸν Ἐλευθερᾶ καὶ Λύσιον ἐκάλουν καὶ μαντικῆσ πολλὴν ἔχειν ἡγοῦντο μοῖραν, οὐ διὰ τὸ βακχεύσιμον καὶ μανιῶδεσ ὥσπερ Εὐριπίδησ εἶπεν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι τὸ δουλοπρεπὲσ καὶ περιδεὲσ καὶ ἄπιστον ἐξαιρῶν καὶ ἀπολύων τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ παρρησίᾳ χρῆσθαι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ δίδωσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 5:20)
  • οἱ δὲ τὸ τῆσ εἰρήνησ χρήσιμον οὐ Καρχηδονίοισ μᾶλλον ἢ σφίσιν ὑπεδείκνυον ἔσεσθαι, τῆσ Ἰταλίασ τοσοῖσδε πολέμοισ ἐκτετρυχωμένησ, τό τε τοῦ μέλλοντοσ περιδεὲσ ἐπεξῄεσαν, ἐπιπλευσουμένων ἐπὶ τὸν Σκιπίωνα αὐτίκα σὺν μεγάλοισ στρατοῖσ Ἀννίβου τε ἐξ Ἰταλίασ καὶ Μάγωνοσ ἐκ Λιγύων καὶ Ἄννωνοσ ἀπὸ Καρχηδόνοσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 6 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. very timid or fearful

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

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