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προτρεπτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προτρεπτικός προτρεπτική προτρεπτικόν

Structure: προτρεπτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from protre/pw

Sense

  1. persuasive, in oratory, persuasively

Declension

First/Second 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

  • παρακαλέσαι, οὐδεὶσ Ἑλληνικῆσ φωνῆσ ἐπαϊών οὐκ ἂν ἐπαρθείη τοῖσ προτρεπτικοῖσ Ξενοφῶντοσ λόγοισ ἑ̓μοὶ γοῦν κινεῖται ἡ διάνοια καὶ ἐνίοτε δακρύω μεταξὺ διὰ τοσούτων ἐτῶν τοῖσ λόγοισ ἐντυγχάνων̓ εἴτε μέγα φρονοῦσι καὶ ἐπηρμένοισ ὁμιλῆσαι φρονίμωσ καὶ μήτε παθεῖν τι ὑπ̓ αὐτῶν δυσχερανάντων μήτε ἀπρεπῶσ δουλῶσαι τὴν αὑτοῦ διάνοιαν καὶ τὸ ἐκείνοισ κεχαρισμένον ἐκ παντὸσ ποιῆσαι, καὶ ταῦτα ἔνεστιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 29:1)
  • ὅθεν τὸ ῥητορικὸν εἶδοσ ἐν τοῖσ διαλόγοισ ἐπιφέρει καὶ μάλιστα ἐν τῇ Ἀληθείᾳ καὶ τοῖσ Προτρεπτικοῖσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. ANTISQENHS 1:8)
  • διδακτήν τ’ εἶναι αὐτήν, λέγω δὲ τὴν ἀρετήν, καὶ Χρύσιπποσ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ Περὶ τέλουσ φησὶ καὶ Κλεάνθησ καὶ Ποσειδώνιοσ ἐν τοῖσ Προτρεπτικοῖσ καὶ Ἑκάτων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 91:4)
  • δοκεῖ δ’ αὐτοῖσ μηδὲ διὰ τὴν διαφωνίαν ἀφίστασθαι φιλοσοφίασ, ἐπεὶ τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ προλείψειν ὅλον τὸν βίον, ὡσ καὶ Ποσειδώνιόσ φησιν ἐν τοῖσ Προτρεπτικοῖσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 129:1)

Synonyms

  1. persuasive

Related

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

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