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ἔμπληκτος , ον, (ἐμπλήσσω)
A.stunned, amazed, “ὑπὸ τῶν κυνῶν γενέσθαι” X.Cyn.5.9: hence, stupid, senseless, “ἔ. καὶ μανικός” Plu.Rom.28, Agath.3.24, etc.; “ἔμπληκτα ληρεῖν” Gal.8.693.
2. in Att., impulsive: hence, unstable, capricious, S.Aj.1358, Arist.EE1240b17; “αἱ τύχαι, ἔ. ὡς ἄνθρωπος, ἄλλοτ᾽ ἄλλοσε πηδῶσι” E.Tr.1205; [ἡ φιλοσοφία] τῶν ἑτέρων παιδικῶν πολὺ ἧττον ἔ. Pl.Grg.482a; “ἐ. τε καὶ ἀσταθμήτους” Id.Ly.214d; “ἔ. ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις” Plu.Dio 18.
II. Adv. -τως rashly, madly, Isoc.7.30, etc.; τὸ ἐ. ὀξύ frantic vehemence, Th.3.82; foolishly, Gal.1.535.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 1205
    • Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 30
    • Plato, Lysis, 214d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 482a
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 1358
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.82
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 5.9
    • Plutarch, Dion, 18
    • Plutarch, Romulus, 28
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