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περισπούδαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περισπούδαστος περισπούδαστον

Structure: περισπουδαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spouda/zw

Sense

  1. much sought after, much desired

Examples

  • οὕτω δὲ ἦσαν περισπούδαστοι πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ αἱ ἰσχάδεσ ὄντωσ γὰρ κατὰ τὸν Ἀριστοφάνην οὐδὲν γὰρ ὄντωσ γλυκύτερον τῶν ἰσχάδων · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 67 4:3)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τῆσ τραπέζησ μαίανδρον ἐξέγλυψαν λίθουσ αὐτῷ κατὰ μέσον ἀξιολόγουσ ὥσπερ ἀστέρασ ποικίλησ ἰδέασ ἐνθέντεσ, τόν τε ἄνθρακα καὶ τὸν σμάραγδον ἥδιστον προσαυγάζοντασ αὐτῶν ἑκάτερον τοῖσ ὁρῶσιν, τῶν τε ἄλλων γενῶν ὅσοι περισπούδαστοι καὶ ζηλωτοὶ πᾶσιν διὰ τὴν πολυτέλειαν τῆσ φύσεωσ ὑπάρχουσιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 83:1)
  • οὐχ ὁρᾷσ ὁπόσαι καὶ ὡσ περισπούδαστοί εἰσιν αἱ ἑταῖραι καὶ ὁρ́α χρήματα λαμβάνουσι; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:11)

Synonyms

  1. much sought after

Related

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

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