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θώπευμα?

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: thōpeuma

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 θωπεύμασι(ν)
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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