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προετικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προετικός προετική προετικόν

Structure: προετικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: proi/+hmi

Sense

  1. apt to throw away, giving lavishly, profuse, lavish, giving lavishly

Examples

  • τὸ προετικὸν εἶναι χρημάτων εἰσ τὰ ἐπαινετά, καὶ δαψιλῆ ἐπὶ τῷ εἰσ τὰ δέοντα ἀναλωθῆναι, καὶ τὸ βοηθητικὸν εἶναι ἐν τῷ διαφόρῳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ λαβεῖν ὅθεν μὴ δεῖ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 24:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ οὗ μὴ ἀνάγκη κινδυνευτικόσ, πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἂν δόξειεν ὅπου καλόν, καὶ εἰ προετικὸσ τοῖσ τυχοῦσι, καὶ τοῖσ φίλοισ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 9 29:2)
  • πλουτεῖν δ’ οὐ ῥᾴδιον τὸν ἐλευθέριον, μήτε ληπτικὸν ὄντα μήτε φυλακτικόν, προετικὸν δὲ καὶ μὴ τιμῶντα δι’ αὐτὰ τὰ χρήματα ἀλλ’ ἕνεκα τῆσ δόσεωσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 16:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ παρασκευαστικὸν τῶν εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν στρατηγὸν εἶναι χρή, καὶ ποριστικὸν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων τοῖσ στρατιώταισ, καὶ μηχανικὸν καὶ ἐργαστικὸν καὶ ἐπιμελῆ καὶ καρτερικὸν καὶ ἀγχίνουν, καὶ φιλόφρονά τε καὶ ὠμόν, καὶ ἁπλοῦν τε καὶ ἐπίβουλον, καὶ φυλακτικόν τε καὶ κλέπτην, καὶ προετικὸν καὶ ἁρ́παγα καὶ φιλόδωρον καὶ πλεονέκτην καὶ ἀσφαλῆ καὶ ἐπιθετικόν, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ φύσει καὶ ἐπιστήμῃ δεῖ τὸν εὖ στρατηγήσοντα ἔχειν. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 7:2)

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

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