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θυμόσοφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυμόσοφος θυμόσοφον

Structure: θυμοσοφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. wise from one's own soul, naturally clever, a man of genius

Examples

  • θυμόσοφον γὰρ εἴπερ τι ἄλλο θηρίον ἐλέφασ, καί τινεσ ἤδη αὐτῶν τοὺσ ἀμβάτασ σφῶν ἐν πολέμῳ ἀποθανόντασ ἄραντεσ αὐτοὶ ἐξήνεγκαν ἐσ ταφήν, οἳ δὲ καὶ ὑπερήσπισαν κειμένουσ, οἳ δὲ καὶ πεσόντων προεκινδύνευσαν, ὃ δέ τισ πρὸσ ὀργὴν ἀποκτείνασ τὸν ἀμβάτην ὑπὸ μετανοίησ τε καὶ ἀθυμίησ ἀπέθανεν. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 14 4:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐμφαίνεται καὶ τῷ φιλοστόργῳ τὸ φιλότιμον αὐτῶν καὶ τῷ γενναίῳ τὸ θυμόσοφον, ἣ τε πανουργία καὶ τὸ συνετὸν οὐκ ἀπήλλακται τοῦ θυμοειδοῦσ καὶ ἀνδρώδουσ. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 15 1:2)

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

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