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πολύχυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύχυτος πολύχυτον

Structure: πολυχυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. widely diffused

Examples

  • λέγομεν οὖν ἐν ἡμῖν ὅτι πολλά μέν, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, σοὶ καὶ τὸ σῶμα νοσήματα καὶ πάθη φύσει τ’ ἀνίησιν ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ προσπίπτοντα δέχεται θύραθεν ἂν δὲ σαυτὸν ἔνδοθεν ποικίλον τι καὶ πολυπαθὲσ κακῶν ταμιεῖον εὑρήσεισ καὶ θησαύρισμα, ὥσ φησι Δημόκριτοσ, οὐκ ἔξωθεν ἐπιρρεόντων, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐγγείουσ καὶ αὐτόχθονασ πηγὰσ ἐχόντων, ἃσ ἀνίησιν ἡ κακία πολύχυτοσ καὶ δαψιλὴσ οὖσα τοῖσ πάθεσιν; (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 2 1:2)
  • καὶ θησαύρισμα, ὥσ φησι Δημόκριτοσ, οὐκ ἔξωθεν ἐπιρρεόντων, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐγγείουσ καὶ αὐτόχθονασ πηγὰσ ἐχόντων, ἃσ ἀνίησιν ἡ κακία πολύχυτοσ καὶ δαψιλὴσ; (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 2 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. widely diffused

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

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