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ψεκτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψεκτός ψεκτή ψεκτόν

Structure: ψεκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: 분사형

Sense

  1. blamed, blameable

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ τό γε τοσοῦτον δῆλον, ὅτι ἡ μὲν μέση ἕξισ ἐπαινετή, καθ’ ἣν οἷσ δεῖ ὀργιζόμεθα καὶ ἐφ’ οἷσ δεῖ καὶ ὡσ δεῖ καὶ πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα, αἱ δ’ ὑπερβολαὶ καὶ ἐλλείψεισ ψεκταί, καὶ ἐπὶ μικρὸν μὲν γινόμεναι ἠρέμα, ἐπὶ πλέον δὲ μᾶλλον, ἐπὶ πολὺ δὲ σφόδρα. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 117:3)
  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν αἱ εἰρημέναι ἕξεισ ψεκταί εἰσιν, οὐκ ἄδηλον, καὶ ὅτι ἡ μέση τούτων ἐπαινετή, καθ’ ἣν ἀποδέξεται ἃ δεῖ καὶ ὡσ δεῖ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ δυσχερανεῖ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 120:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι τῶν μὲν καλῶν ἐπαινεταί, τῶν δ’ αἰσχρῶν ψεκταί. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 63:3)
  • Οἱ μὲν οὖν ἰδιῶται οὐ κάρτα γιγνώσκουσι τοὺσ ἐσ ταῦτα διαφέροντασ τῶν πέλασ, ἑτεροίων τε μᾶλλον ἰημάτων ἐπαινέται καὶ ψέκται εἰσίν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 2.5)

Synonyms

  1. blamed

Related

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

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