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ψοφοδεής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψοφοδεής ψοφοδεές

Structure: ψοφοδεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: de/os

Sense

  1. frightened at every noise, shy, timid, timidity

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τοῖσ μεγέθεσι τῶν ἀνδρῶν συνεξισῶν τοὺσ λόγουσ, ἀλλὰ ψοφοδεεῖσ καὶ τοὺσ κρατίστουσ δημηγοροῦντασ καταλείπων τὰσ δυνάμεισ καὶ τὰσ προαιρέσεισ ὁμοίουσ ἅπαντασ ποιεῖ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 5 6:3)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν πλεῖστοσ ἦν λόγοσ τῶν παρόντων, ὅτι φόβον τὸ πάθοσ οὐ θυμὸν ἐνεργάζεται τοῖσ ἵπποισ, καὶ γιγνόμενοι ψοφοδεεῖσ καὶ πρὸσ ἅπαν εὐπτόητοι τὰσ ὁρμὰσ ὀξυρρόπουσ καὶ ταχείασ ἴσχουσιν, ὥσπερ τὰ λινόπληκτα τῶν θηρίων. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 2:2)

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

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