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θηρευτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηρευτικός θηρευτική θηρευτικόν

Structure: θηρευτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from qhreu/w

Sense

  1. of or for hunting, hounds, of hunters

Examples

  • ἦν γὰρ θηρευτική. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 15 1:10)
  • αἱ μὲν γὰρ ἡδεῖαι γίγνονται ἄν τισ ᾖ συνήθησ, αἱ δ’ εὐθὺσ ἡδεῖαι, οἱο͂ν κυνηγία καὶ πᾶσα θηρευτική· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 15:3)
  • ἡ δὲ κτητικὴ ἑτέρα ἀμφοτέρων τούτων, οἱο͂ν ἡ δικαία, πολεμική τισ οὖσα ἢ θηρευτική. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 83:2)
  • καὶ μὴν οὐδ’ ἡ σύμπασα θηρευτική, πολλή περ καὶ τεχνικὴ γεγονυῖα, τό γε μεγαλοπρεπὲσ σὺν τῷ σοφῷ οὐκ ἀποδίδωσιν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 16:1)
  • θηρευτική τισ ἥδε γέ ἐστιν τέχνη ἀνθρώπων. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 219:1)

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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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