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χειραγωγός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειραγωγός χειραγωγοῦ

Structure: χειραγωγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one that leads by the hand, a leader, guide

Declension

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

  • ὅμοιον γὰρ ὥσπερ εἴ τισ λέγοι τὸν οὕτωσ ἀδύνατον τὴν ὄψιν ὡσ μηδὲ τὰ ἐν ποσὶν ὁρᾶν, ἀλλὰ προσδεόμενον χειραγωγοῦ, τοῦτον ἐφικεῖσθαι βλέποντα μέχρι τῶν πλεῖστον ἀπεχόντων, ὥσπερ οἱ πόρρωθεν ὁρῶντεσ ἐκ τοῦ πελάγουσ τά τε ὄρη καὶ τὰσ νήσουσ, ἢ τὸν οὐ δυνάμενον φθέγγεσθαι τοῖσ παρεστῶσιν ἱκανὸν ὅλοισ δήμοισ καὶ στρατοπέδοισ εἰσ ἐπήκοον φθέγγεσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 1:2)
  • ἀλλὰ τοσοῦτ’ ἀπέχουσι τοῦ ταὐτὰ φρονεῖν ἀλλήλοισ ὥστ’ οὐδεὶσ αὐτῶν ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν αὐτὸσ αὑτῷ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ταὐτὰ φρονεῖ διὰ τέλουσ, ἀλλὰ πάντεσ ὥσπερ χειραγωγοῦ τοῦ ῥήτοροσ χρώμενοι ἀεὶ δέονται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 45:8)

Synonyms

  1. one that leads by the hand

Related

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

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