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ὑπότρομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπότρομος ὑπότρομον

Structure: ὑποτρομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. somewhat afraid or timid

Examples

  • γεγονότων δὲ τῶν πρὸσ τὴν σύλληψιν ἑτοίμων ἦν μὲν ἐκκλησία τῶν πολιτῶν, ὁ δὲ Νικίασ μεταξύ τι λέγων καὶ συμβουλεύων πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον ἐξαίφνησ ἀφῆκεν εἰσ τὴν γῆν τὸ σῶμα, καὶ μικρὸν διαλιπών, οἱο͂ν εἰκὸσ, ἡσυχίασ σὺν ἐκπλήξει γενομένησ, τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπάρασ καὶ περιενεγκὼν, ὑποτρόμῳ φωνῇ καὶ βαρείᾳ, κατὰ μικρὸν συντείνων καὶ παροξύνων τὸν ἦχον, ὡσ ἑώρα φρίκῃ καὶ σιωπῇ κατεχόμενον τὸ θέατρον, ἀπορρίψασ τὸ ἱμάτιον καὶ περιρρηξάμενοσ τὸν χιτωνίσκον, ἡμίγυμνοσ ἀναπηδήσασ ἔθεε πρὸσ τὴν ἔξοδον τοῦ θεάτρου, βοῶν ὑπὸ τῶν Ματέρων ἐλαύνεσθαι. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 20 5:1)

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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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