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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

  • ἐν δ’ ὀαριστύσ πάρφασισ, ἥ τ’ ἔκλεψε νόον πύκα περ φρονεόντων οὐ γὰρ ἅπτεται τὸ ἀπατηλὸν αὐτῆσ ἀβελτέρων κομιδῇ καὶ ἀνοήτων. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 1 15:2)
  • τῶν γὰρ ἄλλων ἐπὶ μὲν τῆσ πραότητοσ ταπεινῶν, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆσ σεμνότητοσ αὐθαδῶν ὑπολαμβανομένων, καὶ διὰ μὲν τὴν ἀνδρείαν θρασυτέρων, διὰ δὲ τὴν ἡσυχίαν ἀβελτέρων εἶναι δοκούντων, τοσαύτασ ὑπεναντιώσεισ πρὸσ ἄλληλα λαβοῦσ’ ἡ τύχη πρὸσ τὸ δέον ἅπανθ’ ὁμολογούμεν’ ἀπέδωκεν, ὥσπερ εὐχὴν ἐπιτελοῦσ’ ἢ παράδειγμα τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ὑποδεῖξαι βουληθεῖσα, ἀλλ’ οὐ θνητήν, ὡσ εἴθιστο, φύσιν συνιστᾶσα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 17:2)

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

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