cause for boasting, glory; boasting, self-confidence
Ancient Greek word, found 32 times in the texts on Socratos.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.62.4: αὔχημα μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἀπὸ ἀμαθίας εὐτυχοῦς καὶ δειλῷ τινὶ ἐγγίγνεται, καταφρόνησις δὲ ὃς ἂν καὶ γνώμῃ πιστεύῃ τῶν ἐναντίων προύχειν, ὃ ἡμῖν ὑπάρχει.
Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1137: Ἀργεῖον αὔχημʼ· ἐκ δὲ τειχέων μέσων
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 3.52.4: … άλαγγα. ὡς δʼ οὐκ ἀντεπεξῄεσαν οἱ πολέμιοι, σκυλεύσας αὐτῶν τοὺς νεκροὺς καὶ τοὺς ἰδίους ἀνελόμενος σὺν πολλῷ αὐχήματι ἀπῆγε τὴν στρατιὰν ἐπὶ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ χάρακα.
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