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πραότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πραότης πραότητος

Structure: πραοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from pra=os

Sense

  1. mildness, gentleness

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

  • ἀρετή ἐστιν ἡ φρόνησισ, τοῦ δὲ θυμοειδοῦσ ἥ τε πραότησ καὶ ἡ ἀνδρεία, τοῦ δὲ ἐπιθυμητικοῦ ἥ τε σωφροσύνη καὶ ἡ ἐγκράτεια, ὅλησ δὲ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἥ τε δικαιοσύνη καὶ ἡ ἐλευθεριότησ καὶ ἡ μεγαλοψυχία. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 5:1)
  • πραότησ δ’ ἐστὶν ἀρετὴ τοῦ θυμοειδοῦσ, καθ’ ἣν ὑπὸ ὀργῆσ γίνονται δυσκίνητοι. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 8:1)
  • πραότητοσ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ δύνασθαι φέρειν μετρίωσ ἐγκλήματα καὶ ὀλιγωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ταχέωσ ὁρμᾶν ἐπὶ τὰσ τιμωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ εὐκίνητον εἶναι πρὸσ τὰσ ὀργάσ, ἄπικρον δὲ τῷ ἤθει καὶ ἀφιλόνεικον, ἔχοντα τὸ ἠρεμαῖον ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ στάσιμον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 15:3)
  • ταῦτα, ὦ φιλότησ, ὀλίγα ἐκ πολλῶν δείγματοσ ἕνεκα γράψαι ἠξίωσα, καὶ σοὶ μὲν χαριζόμενοσ, ἀνδρὶ ἑταίρῳ καὶ φίλῳ καὶ ὃν ἐγὼ πάντων μάλιστα θαυμάσασ ἔχω ἐπί τε σοφίᾳ καὶ τῷ πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν ἔρωτι καὶ τρόπου πραότητι καὶ ἐπιεικείᾳ καὶ γαλήνῃ βίου καὶ δεξιότητι πρὸσ τοὺσ συνόντασ, τὸ πλέον δέ, ‐ ὅπερ καὶ σοὶ ἥδιον, ‐ Ἐπικούρῳ τιμωρῶν, ἀνδρὶ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἱερῷ καὶ θεσπεσίῳ τὴν φύσιν καὶ μόνῳ μετ’ ἀληθείασ τὰ καλὰ ἐγνωκότι καὶ παραδεδωκότι καὶ ἐλευθερωτῇ τῶν ὁμιλησάντων αὐτῷ γενομένῳ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 61:1)
  • τοὺσ δὲ τὴν ἀρετὴν ζηλοῦντασ αὐτοῦ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ καλὸν καὶ φιλάνθρωπον ἀφομοιοῦντασ ἑαυτοὺσ ἡδόμενοσ αὔξει καὶ μεταδίδωσι τῆσ περὶ αὐτὸν εὐνομίασ καὶ δίκησ καὶ ἀληθείασ καὶ πραότητοσ· (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 3 12:1)
  • αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἐτῶν ἡμῶν ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη, ἐὰν δὲ ἐν δυναστείαισ, ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη, καὶ τὸ πλεῖον αὐτῶν κόποσ καὶ πόνοσ. ὅτι ἐπῆλθε πρᾳότησ ἐφ̓ ἡμᾶσ, καὶ παιδευθησόμεθα. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 89:10)
  • σοφία γὰρ καὶ παιδεία φόβοσ Κυρίου, καὶ ἡ εὐδοκία αὐτοῦ πίστισ καὶ πρᾳότησ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 1:28)
  • ἡ μέντοι πρὸσ Μινούκιον ἐπιείκεια τοῦ Φαβίου καὶ πρᾳότησ ἐλέγχει τὸν πρὸσ Κίμωνα καὶ Θουκυδίδην στασιασμόν, ἄνδρασ ἀγαθοὺσ καὶ ἀριστοκρατικοὺσ εἰσ φυγὴν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὔστρακον ἐκπεσόντασ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus, chapter 3 1:3)

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

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