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ὑβριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑβριστής ὑβριστοῦ

Structure: ὑβριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: u(bri/zw

Sense

  1. a violent, overbearing person, a wanton, insolent man
  2. lustful, lewd
  3. wanton, restive, unruly

Declension

First declension

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἦσαν ὑβρισταὶ καὶ λάλοι, ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἔτι καὶ νῦν κολάζονται, ἄβατοσ δὲ τῷ θνητῷ γένει καὶ ἀπόρρητοσ ὁ οὐρανόσ. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 9:6)
  • ὑβρισταὶ κάρτα ἐόντεσ ἀθέμιστα ἔργα ἔπρησσον, οὔτε γὰρ ὁρ́κια ἐφύλασσον οὔτε ξείνουσ ἐδέκοντο οὔτε ἱκετέων ἠνείχοντο, ἀνθ’ ὧν σφίσιν ἡ μεγάλη συμφορὴ ἀπίκετο. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 12:6)
  • οὐδὲν οὖν οὔτ’ αὐτοὶ δεινὸν πάσχοιεν ἂν οὔτ’ ἐκεῖνοι ὑβρισταὶ δοκοῖεν εἰσ τὴν ἀμίδα, φασίν, ἐνουροῦντεσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 4:6)
  • "οἱ δὲ δὴ Ἐπικούρειοι αὐτῶν λεγόμενοι μάλα δὴ καὶ ὑβρισταί εἰσι καὶ οὐ μετρίωσ ἡμῶν καθάπτονται μήτε ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων λέγοντεσ τοὺσ θεοὺσ μήτε ὅλωσ τὰ γιγνόμενα ἐπισκοπεῖν ὥστε ὡρ́α ὑμῖν λογίζεσθαι διότι ἢν ἅπαξ οὗτοι πεῖσαι τὸν βίον δυνηθῶσιν, οὐ μετρίωσ πεινήσετε. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 29:10)
  • ὅσοι γ’ ὑβρισταί· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 5:24)
  • ἀλλ’ ἕνεκα μὲν δὴ τούτων ὕβρισταί μοι εἰσ τὸν Πύρρον, ὅτι σὲ εἴκασα κατὰ τοῦτο αὐτῷ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 21:4)
  • τίσ πορνοβοσκὸσ ὕβρισται ; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 21:8)

Synonyms

  1. lustful

Related

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

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