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θηρατικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηρατικός θηρατική θηρατικόν

Structure: θηρατικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = qhreutiko/s: metaph., ta\ q. tw=n fi/lwn

Sense

  1. the arts for winning

Examples

  • "καὶ θηρατικὸσ οὐ τοῖσ ἄρρεσι χαίρει μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ Κρήσσασ τρέφει καὶ Λακαίνασ σκύλακασ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 219)
  • ἦν δὲ οὐ πολὺ διάστημα ἀπὸ τοῦ κήπου πρὸσ τὸ τεῖχοσ καὶ τὸν πύργον, ἐν ᾧ κύων μέγασ ἐφρούρει θηρατικόσ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 8 1:1)

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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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