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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 στρυφνοὶ τὰσ ἐκκρίσεισ Ξενοφῶν δὲ ὁ μουσικώτατοσ ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ Ιἕρωνι ἢ τυραννικῷ διαβάλλων τὰ τοιαῦτα βρώματά φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 93 2:3)
  • παρὰ τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ τοίνυν καὶ τὰσ συνθήκασ τὰσ ἐν τῇ κοινῇ εἰρήνῃ γεγραμμένασ Ἀλέξανδροσ εἰσ Μεσσήνην καταγαγὼν τοὺσ Φιλιάδου παῖδασ, ὄντασ τυράννουσ, ἆρ’ ἐφρόντισε τοῦ δικαίου, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐχρήσατο τῷ αὑτοῦ ἤθει τῷ τυραννικῷ, βραχὺ φροντίσασ ὑμῶν καὶ τῆσ κοινῆσ ὁμολογίασ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 6:1)
  • ἐν ἀνδρὶ δὲ ἡγῇ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐν ἄλλῳ τινὶ πλείω εἶναι ἢ ἐν τῷ μαινομένῳ ὑπὸ ἐπιθυμιῶν τε καὶ ἐρώτων τούτῳ τῷ τυραννικῷ; (Plato, Republic, book 9 161:1)

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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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