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ἀβέβαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβέβαιος ἀβέβαιη ἀβέβαιον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + βεβαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. uncertain, unsteady
  2. unstable

Examples

  • ἐγὼ γὰρ ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα ἐξετάζων τὰ κατὰ τὸν βίον γελοῖα καὶ ταπεινὰ καὶ ἀβέβαια τὰ ἀνθρώπινα πάντα εὑρ́ισκον, πλούτουσ λέγω καὶ ἀρχὰσ καὶ δυναστείασ, καταφρονήσασ αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν περὶ ταῦτα σπουδὴν ἀσχολίαν τῶν ἀληθῶσ σπουδαίων ὑπολαβὼν ἀνακύπτειν τε καὶ πρὸσ τὸ πᾶν ἀποβλέπειν ἐπειρώμην καί μοι ἐνταῦθα πολλήν τινα παρεῖχε τὴν ἀπορίαν πρῶτον μὲν αὐτὸσ οὗτοσ ὁ ὑπὸ τῶν σοφῶν καλούμενοσ κόσμοσ· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 4:2)
  • ἀβέβαια γὰρ ταῦτά γε καὶ πολλὰσ τὰσ ἐπιβουλὰσ ἔχοντα καὶ πλέον τοῦ ἡδέοσ τὸ ἀνιαρὸν ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἦν. (Lucian, 70:4)
  • οὐχ ὑπομενεῖ πεπραμένον τὸ σῶμα τῆσ φερνῆσ ἔχων, ὡσ Εὐριπίδησ φησίν, βραχέα δ’ ἔχει τὰ ζηλωτὰ καὶ ἀβέβαια. (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 15)
  • ἔτι τοίνυν, εἰ μὲν οὐδέν ἐστι καταληπτὸν ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ γνωστόν, εἰκότωσ ὁ θεὸσ ἀπεκώλυσεν αὐτὸν ὑπηνέμια καὶ ψευδῆ καὶ ἀβέβαια γεννᾶν. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 1, section 31)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἐφήμερα καλεῖν καὶ ἀβέβαια καὶ ἀστάθμητα φύλλοισ τε γιγνομένοισ ἔτουσ ὡρ́ᾳ καὶ φθίνουσιν εἰκάζειν τὸν βίον τί παρέσχηκεν ἄλλο τοῖσ ποιηταῖσ ἢ τὸ τῆσ σαρκὸσ ἐπίκηρον καὶ πολυβλαβὲσ καὶ νοσῶδεσ, ἧσ δὴ καὶ τὸ ἄκρον ἀγαθὸν δεδιέναι καὶ κολούειν παρεγγυῶσι; (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 5 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. uncertain

  2. unstable

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Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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