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===substantive===

[[verse|V.]] [[μῶμος]], ὁ; see [[blame]].

(Personified in [[Plato]], ''[[Republic]]'' 487A) [[contentiousness]]: [[prose|P.]] [[φιλονεικία]], ἡ.

===verb intransitive===

[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐρίζειν]], [[prose|P.]] [[φιλονεικεῖν]].

[[cavil at]], [[blame]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[μέμφεσθαι]] (acc. or dat.), [[ψέγειν]].

[[abuse]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[διαβάλλω]], [[διαβάλλειν]].
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