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πολύτροπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύτροπος

Structure: πολυτροπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/pw

Sense

  1. much turned, much traveled, much wandering
  2. turning many ways
  3. (metaphoric) shifty, versatile, wily
  4. (of diseases) changeful, complicated

Examples

  • αἱ δὲ πεζικαί τε καὶ ἱππικαὶ τάξεισ καὶ ὁπλίσεισ πολυειδεῖσ τε καὶ πολύτροποί εἰσιν. (Arrian, chapter 3 1:1)
  • καὶ οὕτω ποικίλαι μὲν αἱ ἐπιστροφαί, πολυειδεῖσ δὲ οἱ ἐξελιγμοί, πολύτροποι δὲ ἄλλῃ καὶ ἄλλῃ αἱ ἐπελάσεισ γιγνόμεναι ἀσυγχύτουσ ὅμωσ τὰσ τάξεισ παρέχονται. (Arrian, chapter 35 10:1)
  • ἐπὶ τούτῳ μέντοι ἤδη πολύτροποι ἐξακοντισμοὶ γίγνονται ἢ κούφων παλτῶν ἢ καὶ βελῶν, οὐκ ἀπὸ τόξου τούτων γε ἀλλ̓ ἀπὸ μηχανῆσ ἀφιεμένων, ἢ λίθων ἐκ χειρὸσ ἢ ἐκ σφενδόνησ ἐπὶ τὸν σκοπόν, ὃσ μέσοσ τοῖν δυοῖν, οἷν ἤδη μνήμην ἐποιησάμην, ἵσταται. (Arrian, chapter 43 1:1)
  • δυνατοὶ μὲν δή, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, εἰσὶ κατὰ τὸν σὸν λόγον καὶ πολύτροποι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 17:1)
  • πολύτροποι δ’ εἰσὶ καὶ ἀπατεῶνεσ ὑπὸ ἠλιθιότητοσ καὶ ἀφροσύνησ, ἢ ὑπὸ πανουργίασ καὶ φρονήσεώσ τινοσ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 17:4)

Synonyms

  1. turning many ways

  2. shifty

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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