Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀβίωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβίωτος ἀβίωτη ἀβίωτον

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

Sense

  1. not to be lived, insupportable, life is intolerable, life intolerable

Examples

  • κἂν ταῦτ’ ἀνύσηται, τετταράκοντα βούλεται, ἤ φησιν εἶν ἀβίωτον αὑτῷ τὸν βίον. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 4:23)
  • ἀφ’ οὗ γὰρ ὁ θεὸσ οὗτοσ ἤρξατο βλέπειν, ἀβίωτον εἶναί μοι πεποίηκε τὸν βίον. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode8)
  • ἀναπτύξω δέ σοι ἀβίωτον ἡμῖν νῦν τε καὶ πάροιθεν ὄν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:2)
  • εἰ μὴ γὰρ ἥτισ μ’ ἔτεκεν εὑρήσω, πάτερ, ἀβίωτον ἡμῖν. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic 5:11)
  • ἡμῖν γὰρ ἐξὸν ζῆν μὴ καλῶσ, καλῶσ αἱρούμεθα μᾶλλον τελευτᾶν, πρὶν ὑμᾶσ τε καὶ τοὺσ ἔπειτα εἰσ ὀνείδη καταστῆσαι καὶ πρὶν τοὺσ ἡμετέρουσ πατέρασ καὶ πᾶν τὸ πρόσθεν γένοσ αἰσχῦναι, ἡγούμενοι τῷ τοὺσ αὑτοῦ αἰσχύνοντι ἀβίωτον εἶναι καὶ τῷ τοιούτῳ οὔτε τινὰ ἀνθρώπων οὔτε θεῶν φίλον εἶναι, οὔτ’ ἐπὶ γῆσ οὔθ’ ὕστερον τελευτήσαντι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 30 1:7)

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

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