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πρόσπαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσπαιος πρόσπαιον

Structure: προσπαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pai/w

Sense

  1. striking upon, sudden, suddenly

Examples

  • δ’ εὔνοια καὶ ἐκ προσπαίου, οἱο͂ν καὶ περὶ τοὺσ ἀγωνιστὰσ συμβαίνει· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 57:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐκ προσπαίου τινὸσ τύχησ σὺν καιρῷ λάμψαντασ, τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον, ἔτι δοκοῦντασ ἀκμὴν καὶ μέλλοντασ εὐτυχεῖν, τῆσ ἐναντίασ πεῖραν εἰληφέναι μεταβολῆσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, vii. rei publicae romanae cum aliis collatio 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. striking upon

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

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