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θρασύμαχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θρασύμαχος θρασύμαχον

Structure: θρασυμαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. bold in battle

Examples

  • ἐῶ γὰρ τὰσ ἄλλασ αὐτοῦ γραφὰσ παραφέρειν, ἐν αἷσ κωμῳδεῖ τοὺσ πρὸ ἑαυτοῦ, Παρμενίδην τε καὶ Ἱππίαν καὶ Πρωταγόραν καὶ Πρόδικον καὶ Γοργίαν καὶ Πῶλον καὶ Θεόδωρον καὶ Θρασύμαχον καὶ ἄλλουσ συχνούσ, οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ βελτίστου πάντα περὶ αὐτῶν γράφων ἀλλ’ εἰ βούλει, καὶ ἀπὸ φιλοτιμίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 12:1)
  • μετὰ ταύτασ ἀρετὴν εὑρίσκω παρὰ Λυσίᾳ πάνυ θαυμαστήν, ἧσ Θεόφραστοσ μέν φησιν ἄρξαι Θρασύμαχον, ἐγὼ δ’ ἡγοῦμαι Λυσίαν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 61)
  • ἄλλοσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ, οἱο͂ν ὡσ ὁ Σοφοκλῆσ σαφῶσ σιδήρῳ καὶ φοροῦσα τοὔνομα, καὶ ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ τῶν θεῶν ἐπαίνοισ εἰώθασι λέγειν, καὶ ὡσ Κόνων Θρασύβουλον θρασύβουλον ἐκάλει, καὶ Ἡρόδικοσ Θρασύμαχον "ἀεὶ θρασύμαχοσ εἶ" , καὶ Πῶλον "ἀεὶ σὺ πῶλοσ εἶ" , καὶ Δράκοντα τὸν νομοθέτην, ὅτι οὐκ ἂν ἀνθρώπου οἱ νόμοι ἀλλὰ δράκοντοσ χαλεποὶ γάρ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 23 29:1)
  • γιγνώσκω δὲ νῦν ἤδη καὶ πάλαι ζητοῦντασ πρόφασιν, ἡνίκα Θρασύμαχον ὑμᾶσ ἐφάσκετε κακῶσ λέγειν δι’ ἐμέ. (Lysias, Speeches, 18:1)
  • διὰ ταῦτα δὴ καὶ πρὸσ Θρασύμαχον οἶμαι πορεύσομαι καὶ ἄλλοσε ὅποι δύναμαι, ἀπορῶν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 26:4)

Synonyms

  1. bold in battle

Related

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

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