Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τυραννικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τυραννικός τυραννική τυραννικόν

Structure: τυραννικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tu/rannos

Sense

  1. of or for a despotic ruler, royal, princely, of kings
  2. befitting a tyrant, despotic, imperious, in favour of tyranny, the times of despotic government

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ πρεσβύτεροι καὶ τούτοισ ἐδυσχέραινον ὡσ τυραννικοῖσ καὶ παρανόμοισ. (Plutarch, , chapter 16 5:4)
  • πάτερ, τρόποισιν οὐ τυραννικοῖσ θανών, αἰτουμένῳ μοι δὸσ κράτοσ τῶν σῶν δόμων. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode1)
  • εἰ δ’ ἔχεισ εἰπεῖν, ὦ Κριτία, ὅπου ἐγὼ σὺν τοῖσ δημοτικοῖσ ἢ τυραννικοῖσ τοὺσ καλούσ τε κἀγαθοὺσ ἀποστερεῖν πολιτείασ ἐπεχείρησα, λέγε· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 56:1)

Related

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

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