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θώπευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: θώπευμα θώπευματος

Structure: θωπευματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a piece of flattery, caresses

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θώπευμα θωπεύματε θωπεύματα
Genitive θωπεύματος θωπευμάτοιν θωπευμάτων
Dative θωπεύματι θωπευμάτοιν θωπεύμασιν*
Accusative θώπευμα θωπεύματε θωπεύματα
Vocative θώπευμα θωπεύματε θωπεύματα

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

  • ἀρσένων δὲ μείζονεσ ψυχαί, γλυκεῖαι δ’ ἧσσον ἐσ θωπεύματα. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, lyric 1:16)
  • ἕλκων ἐφ’ αὑτὸν ὥστε καικίασ νέφη τὰσ χρείασ καὶ τὰσ οἰκονομίασ πανταχόθεν ἀλλὰ δημοσιεύων ἀεὶ ταῖσ φροντίσι , καὶ τὴν πολιτείαν βίον καὶ πρᾶξιν οὐκ ἀσχολίαν ὥσπερ οἱ πολλοὶ καὶ λειτουργίαν ἡγούμενοσ, πᾶσι τούτοισ καὶ τοῖσ τοιούτοισ ἐπιστρέφει καὶ προσάγεται τοὺσ πολλούσ, νόθα καὶ κίβδηλα τὰ τῶν ἄλλων θωπεύματα καὶ δελεάσματα πρὸσ τὴν τούτου κηδεμονίαν καὶ φρόνησιν ὁρῶντασ. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 31 15:1)
  • ἢ δι’ ἄλλο τι φήσομεν ἢ ὅταν τισ ἀσθενὲσ φύσει ἔχῃ τὸ τοῦ βελτίστου εἶδοσ, ὥστε μὴ ἂν δύνασθαι ἄρχειν τῶν ἐν αὑτῷ θρεμμάτων, ἀλλὰ θεραπεύειν ἐκεῖνα, καὶ τὰ θωπεύματα αὐτῶν μόνον δύνηται μανθάνειν; (Plato, Republic, book 9 501:2)

Synonyms

  1. a piece of flattery

Similar forms

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

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