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θωπεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θωπεία

Structure: θωπει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. flattery, adulation

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • κοὐχ ὑποτρέχων σε τοῦτο θωπείᾳ λέγω· (Euripides, episode, iambic 19:8)
  • ἢν δὲ ἀμελήσασ ἐκείνων ἡδύνῃσ πέρα τοῦ μετρίου τὴν ἱστορίαν μύθοισ καὶ ἐπαίνοισ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ θωπείᾳ, τάχιστ̓ ἂν ὁμοίαν αὐτὴν ἐξεργάσαιο τῷ ἐν Λυδίᾳ Ἡρακλεῖ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 10 1:1)
  • ἐγὼ δέ, ὦ γενναῖε αὐτοκράτορ, παραγέγονά σοι, καὶ τυχὸν οὐδενὸσ ἧττονἔμπειρόσ εἰμι τῆσ σῆσ φύσεωσ, ὅτι τυγχάνεισ χαίρων ἀληθείᾳ καὶ παρρησίᾳ μᾶλλον ἢ θωπείᾳ καὶ ἀπάτῃ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:2)
  • διὸ ζῶν ἔτι καὶ πρὸσ αὐτῷ γεγονὼσ τῷ τελευτᾶν παραινῶ σοι ταῦθ’ ἃ καὶ πρότερον ἔφθην συμβουλεύσασ, δικαίῳ μὲν εἶναι πρὸσ τοὺσ ἀρχομένουσ, εὐσεβεῖ δὲ πρὸσ τὸν τὴν βασιλείαν δεδωκότα θεόν, φυλάττειν δ’ αὐτοῦ τὰσ ἐντολὰσ καὶ τοὺσ νόμουσ, οὓσ αὐτὸσ διὰ Μωυσέοσ κατέπεμψεν ἡμῖν, καὶ μήτε χάριτι μήτε θωπείᾳ μήτ’ ἐπιθυμίᾳ μήτε ἄλλῳ πάθει προστιθέμενον τούτων ἀμελῆσαι· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 473:1)

Synonyms

  1. flattery

Related

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

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