Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ὀξυ?́-μωρος

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ὀξυ?́-μωρος , ον,

A.pointedly foolish : τὸ ὀξύμωρον a witty saying, the more pointed from being paradoxical or seemingly absurd, such as insaniens sapientia, strenua inertia, splendide mendax, Serv.ad Verg.A.7.295, etc.

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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