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χρησμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρησμός χρησμοῦ

Structure: χρησμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xra/w3

Sense

  1. the answer of an oracle, oracular response, oracle

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

  • οὐ γὰρ παρακινδυνεύων, τὸ ἐπελθὸν ^ ἄλλωσ ὑπέγραφε, χρησμοῖσ πρέπον καὶ τὸ τοιοῦτον οἰόμενοσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 49:3)
  • τοῦτο μὲν ὀρθῶσ ἔλεξασ, ὦ Ἄπολλον, ἐπαινέσασ τοὺσ σαφῶσ λέγοντασ, εἰ καὶ μὴ πάνυ ποιεῖσ αὐτὸ σὺ ἐν τοῖσ χρησμοῖσ λοξὸσ ὢν καὶ γριφώδησ καὶ ἐσ τὸ μεταίχμιον ἀσφαλῶσ ἀπορρίπτων τὰ πολλά, ὡσ τοὺσ ἀκούοντασ ἄλλου δεῖσθαι Πυθίου πρὸσ τὴν ἐξήγησιν αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 28:1)
  • αὐτὸσ δ’ ὁ θεὸσ οὐ φιλοσύντομόσ ἐστι καὶ βραχυλόγοσ ἐν τοῖσ χρησμοῖσ, καὶ Λοξίασ καλεῖται διὰ τὸ φεύγειν τὴν ἀδολεσχίαν μᾶλλον ἢ τὴν ἀσάφειαν; (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 17 4:2)
  • αὐτὸσ δ’ ὁ θεὸσ οὐ φιλοσύντομόσ ἐστι καὶ βραχυλόγοσ ἐν τοῖσ χρησμοῖσ, καὶ Λοξίασ καλεῖται διὰ τὸ φεύγειν τὴν ἀδολεσχίαν μᾶλλον ἢ τὴν ἀσάφειαν; (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 17 10:1)
  • ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὅπωσ ἔχει, διαιτῆσαι χαλεπόν ὁ δὲ Δημοσθένησ λέγεται τοῖσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὅπλοισ ἐκτεθαρρηκὼσ, καὶ λαμπρὸσ ὑπὸ ῥώμησ καὶ προθυμίασ ἀνδρῶν τοσούτων προκαλουμένων τοὺσ πολεμίουσ αἰρόμενοσ, οὔτε χρησμοῖσ ἐᾶν προσέχειν οὔτε μαντείασ ἀκούειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν Πυθίαν ὑπονοεῖν ὡσ φιλιππίζουσαν, ἀναμιμνῄσκων Ἐπαμεινώνδου τοὺσ Θηβαίουσ καὶ Περικλέουσ τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ, ὡσ ἐκεῖνοι τὰ τοιαῦτα δειλίασ ἡγούμενοι προφάσεισ ἐχρῶντο τοῖσ λογισμοῖσ. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 20 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the answer of an oracle

Related

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

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