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προπετείας (propeteias)

προπετείας is an Ancient Greek form of προπέτεια, meaning “headlong haste, rashness; hasty judgement”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 6.3: τούτῳ γοῦν, ἔφη, χρησαίμην ἂν ἑτέρου βέλτιον. ἂν δὲ μὴ χρήσῃ, τίνα δίκην τῆς προπετείας ὑφέξεις; ἐγὼ, νὴ Δίʼ, εἶπεν, ἀποτίσω τοῦ ἵππου τὴν τιμήν γενομένου δὲ γέλωτος, εἶτα ὁρισμοῦ πρὸς ἀλλήλους εἰς …

All forms of προπέτεια (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.