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σοφιστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σοφιστικός σοφιστική σοφιστικόν

Structure: σοφιστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sofisth/s

Sense

  1. of or for a sophist
  2. like a sophist, sophistical

Examples

  • καίτοι γέγραπταί γε οὕτωσ, ἵνα ὀρθῶσ ἔχῃ, καὶ μὴ σοφιστικοὺσ ποιῇ ἀλλὰ σοφοὺσ καὶ ἀγαθούσ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 13 8:1)
  • πρὸσ τοὺσ σοφιστικοὺσ λόγουσ τὰ λογικὰ καὶ τὴν ἐν τούτοισ γυμνασίαν καὶ τριβήν, πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν πραγμάτων πιθανότητασ τὰσ προλήψεισ ἐναργεῖσ ἐσμηγμένασ καὶ προχείρουσ ἔχειν δεῖ. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 6:1)

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

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