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ἀβέλτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβέλτερος ἀβέλτερᾱ ἀβέλτερον

Structure: ἀβελτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. good for nothing, silly, stupid, fatuous

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὦ κακοδαίμονεσ, τί κάθησθ’ ἀβέλτεροι, ἡμέτερα κέρδη τῶν σοφῶν ὄντεσ, λίθοι, ἀριθμόσ, πρόβατ’ ἄλλωσ, ἀμφορῆσ νενησμένοι; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics22)
  • ἔνιοι δ’ ὕδωρ πίνοντὲσ εἰσ1’ ἀβέλτεροι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 20 1:3)
  • ἡμεῖσ γάρ, ὦ βέλτιστε, οὕτωσ ἀβέλτεροι ἦμεν, πρίν σε ταῦτ’ εἰπεῖν, ὥστε δόξαν εἴχομεν περὶ ἐμοῦ τε καὶ σοῦ ὡσ ἑκάτεροσ ἡμῶν εἷσ ἐστι, τοῦτο δὲ ὃ ἑκάτεροσ ἡμῶν εἰή οὐκ ἄρα εἶμεν ἀμφότεροι ‐ οὐ γὰρ εἷσ ἐσμεν, ἀλλὰ δύο ‐ οὕτωσ εὐηθικῶσ εἴχομεν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 124:5)
  • "οὐ γὰρ μόνον ὅσοι τὴν σωτηρίαν οἴκοι καὶ παρ’ αὑτῶν ἔχοντεσ ἄλλην θέλουσιν εἰσαγώγιμον λαβεῖν, ὡσ Εὐριπίδησ εἶπεν, ἀβέλτεροὶ εἰσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅσοι, πολλῆσ ἐν αὐτοῖσ εὐφροσύνησ καὶ θυμηδίασ παρούσησ, ἔξωθεν ἐπάγειν τὰ τέρποντα φιλοτιμοῦνται. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 14:2)

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

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