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δεσποτικῶς

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Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1280-4

English (Woodhouse)

(see also: δεσποτικός) despotically, like a master

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French (Bailly abrégé)

adv.
despotiquement.
Étymologie: δεσποτικός.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

δεσποτικῶς: самовластно, деспотически (συμμαχικῶς ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δ. βουλεύεσθαι Isocr.; διακεῖσθαι Dem.; ἄρχειν Arst., Polyb.; βιάζεσθαι Plut.).