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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

  • ἐπεὶ εἴ γ’ ἐθέλεισ σὺ τούτων μὲν ἤδη παύσασθαι πρὸσ ἐμὲ τῶν λόγων τῶν προτρεπτικῶν, οἱο͂ν δέ, εἰ περὶ γυμναστικῆσ προτετραμμένοσ ἦ τοῦ σώματοσ δεῖν μὴ ἀμελεῖν, τὸ ἐφεξῆσ ἂν τῷ προτρεπτικῷ λόγῳ ἔλεγεσ οἱο͂ν τὸ σῶμά μου φύσει ὂν οἱάσ θεραπείασ δεῖται, καὶ νῦν δὴ ταὐτὸν γιγνέσθω. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 26:5)
  • κἀγὼ ταῦτα ἅσμενοσ ἀκούσασ, τὸ μὲν ἐμόν, ἔφην, παράδειγμα, ὦ Διονυσόδωρέ τε καὶ Εὐθύδημε, οἱών ἐπιθυμῶ τῶν προτρεπτικῶν λόγων εἶναι, τοιοῦτον, ἰδιωτικὸν ἴσωσ καὶ μόλισ διὰ μακρῶν λεγόμενον· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 104:1)
  • Ἐκ τῶν Ἀρριανοῦ προτρεπτικῶν ὁμιλιῶν. (Epictetus, Works, book 0 10:1)
  • Προτρεπτικῶν β’. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. b'. ARISTWN 3:5)

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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