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περίφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίφρων περίφρονος

Structure: περιφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. very thoughtful, very careful, notable
  2. haughty, over-weening
  3. despising

Declension

Third 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

  • "ὅτι τῶν ἄλλων ὁ ἐρωτικὸσ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἁπάντων περιφρονῶν, οὐ μόνον ἑταίρων καὶ οἰκείων, ἀλλὰ καὶ νόμων καὶ ἀρχόντων καὶ βασιλέων, φοβούμενοσ δὲ μηδὲν μηδὲ θαυμάζων μηδὲ θεραπεύων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν αἰχματὰν κεραυνὸν οἱο͂σ ὢν ὑπομένειν, ἅμα τῷ τὸν καλὸν ἰδεῖν ἔπτηξ’ ἀλέκτωρ δοῦλον ὣσ κλίνασ πτερόν, καὶ τὸ θράσοσ ἐκκέκλασται καὶ κατακέκοπται οἱ τὸ τῆσ ψυχῆσ γαῦρον. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 18 2:2)
  • Ἀντίγονοσ μὲν ὀὗν οὐ προσέσχε τοῖσ γραφεῖσιν ὑπὸ Περδίκκου, μετέωροσ ὢν ἤδη καί περιφρονῶν ἁπάντων, Λεοννάτοσ δὲ κατέβη μὲν ἄνωθεν εἰσ Φρυγίαν ἀναδεξόμενοσ Εὐμενεῖ τὴν στρατείαν· (Plutarch, chapter 3 3:1)
  • οὗτοσ ἐντυγχάνων αὐτῇ μακρότερα τῶν ἄλλων καὶ τιμώμενοσ διαφερόντωσ ὑπόνοιαν τῷ Ἀντωνίῳ παρέσχε, καὶ συλλαβὼν αὐτὸν ἐμαστίγωσεν, εἶτα ἀφῆκε πρὸσ Καίσαρα γράψασ ὡσ ἐντρυφῶν καὶ περιφρονῶν παροξύνειεν αὐτόν, εὐπαρόξυντον ὑπὸ κακῶν ὄντα. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 73 2:1)
  • καὶ δή ποτε τῆσ μάχησ διακριθείσησ καὶ γεγονυίασ ἀμφοτέρων ἀναχωρήσεωσ αὐτὸσ ἅτε δὴ περιφρονῶν καὶ νομίζων οὐκ ἂν ἔτι τῶν πολεμίων οὐδένα τότε μάχησ ἄρξειν, μείνασ τῶν πυλῶν ἔξω τοῖσ ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχουσ διελάλει καὶ πᾶσ πρὸσ ἐκείνοισ τὴν διάνοιαν ἦν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 227:1)

Synonyms

  1. despising

Related

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

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