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θηριώδης

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηριώδης θηριώδες

Structure: θηριωδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. full of wild beasts, infested by them
  2. beast-like, wild, savage, brutal, the animal nature

Examples

  • ἀλλά μοι δοκῶ ‐ καὶ πρὸσ φιλίου μὴ δυσχεράνητε τὴν εἰκόνα θηριώδη οὖσαν ‐ ὅμοιόν τι καὶ αὐτὸσ παθεῖν πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ, οἱο͂ν ἐκεῖνοι πάσχουσι πρὸσ τὸ ποτὸν οἱ δηχθέντεσ ὑπὸ τῆσ διψάδοσ· (Lucian, Dipsades 14:3)
  • βάρβαροσ δὲ ἡ φωνὴ ἔστω καὶ ἀπηχὲσ τὸ φθέγμα καὶ ἀτεχνῶσ ὅμοιον κυνί, καὶ πρόσωπον δὲ ἐντεταμένον καὶ βάδισμα τοιούτῳ προσώπῳ πρέπον, καὶ ὅλωσ θηριώδη τὰ πάντα καὶ ἄγρια. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 10:3)
  • "οὐδεὶσ οὖν ἔπαινοσ ἄξιοσ ἂν γένοιτο τῶν ἐπὶ ταῦτα τὰ πάθη τὰ θηριώδη νόμουσ θεμένων καὶ πολιτείασ καὶ ἀρχὰσ καὶ νόμων διάταξιν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 31 1:1)
  • ἀλλά, καίπερ οὕτω διακείμενοι, τῆσ μὲν ἀθανασίασ, ἣν ἡ φύσισ ἡμῶν οὐ δέχεται, καὶ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ, ἧσ ἐν τῇ τύχῃ κεῖται τὸ πλεῖστον, ἐπιθυμοῦσι, τὴν δ’ ἀρετήν, ὃ μόνον ἐστὶ τῶν θείων ἀγαθῶν ἐφ’ ἡμῖν, ἐν ὑστέρῳ τίθενται, κακῶσ φρονοῦντεσ, ὡσ τὸν ἐν δυνάμει καὶ τύχῃ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἀρχῇ βίον ἡ μὲν δικαιοσύνη ποιεῖ θεῖον, ἡ δ’ ἀδικία θηριώδη. (Plutarch, , chapter 6 4:1)
  • ὁ δ’ Ἀργᾶσ καὶ τοῦτο γάρ φασι τῷ Δημοσθένει γενέσθαι παρώνυμον ἢ πρὸσ τὸν τρόπον, ὡσ θηριώδη καὶ πικρὸν ἐτέθη· (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 4 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. full of wild beasts

  2. beast-like

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

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