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ὑπήκους?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: hypēkous

Principal Part: ὑπήκους ὑπήκουν

Structure: ὑπηκο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ἀκοή

Sense

  1. giving ear, listening to
  2. obedient, subject to
  3. liable to furnish
  4. subjects

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἅπαντα τῷ πλουτεῖν γάρ ἐσθ ὑπήκοα. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 3:42)
  • ἀλλ ἑνὸς ὑπήκοα λόγου τὰ ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ μιᾶς πολιτείας, ἕνα δῆμον ἀνθρώπους ἅπαντας ἀποφῆναι βουλόμενος, οὕτως ἑαυτὸν ἐσχημάτιζεν: (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 8 4:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν πλεῖστα τῶν ἐν ποσὶν ἐθνῶν ἐτύγχανεν ὁ Βροῦτος ὑπήκοα πεποιημένος. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 38 1:1)
  • τὰ σφοδρὰ καὶ περιμανῆ καὶ οἰστρώδη κινήματα τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν τοῦ λόγου κατασβέσαντος, ὧν δ ἡ φύσις ἀναγκαίως δεῖται, ταῦθ ὁμοπαθῆ καὶ ὑπήκοα καὶ φίλα καὶ συνεργὰ πεποιημένου ταῖς πρακτικαῖς προαιρέσεσιν: (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 7 1:2)
  • τὴν γὰρ Ἀσίαν, ὅσην ὁ Νικάτωρ Σέλευκος εἶχεν, ὀλίγου δεῖν ἅπασαν ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς ἀνειληφώς, ἔθνη τε πάμπολλα καὶ μάχιμα βαρβάρων ὑπήκοα πεποιημένος, ἐπῆρτο συμπεσεῖν Ῥωμαίοις ὡς μόνοις ἔτι πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀξιομάχοις οὖσιν. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 12 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. giving ear

  2. obedient

  3. liable to furnish

  4. subjects

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

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