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προπετῶς (propetos)

προπετῶς is an Ancient Greek form of προπετής, meaning “headlong, rash”. It is the adverb.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.18: … πολλάκις τὰς κεκαλλιγραφημένας [λέξεις]. Ἀρίστωνος δὲ τοῦ μαθητοῦ πολλὰ διαλεγομένου οὐκ εὐφυῶς, ἔνια δὲ καὶ προπετῶς καὶ θρασέως, ἀδύνατον, εἰπεῖν, εἰ μή σε ὁ πατὴρ μεθύων ἐγέννησεν· ὅθεν αὐτὸν καὶ λάλον ἀπεκάλει, βραχυλόγος ὤ …

All forms of προπετής (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.