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ἄβουλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄβουλος ἄβουλη ἄβουλον

Structure: ἀβουλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: boulh/

Sense

  1. inconsiderate, ill-advised, taking no thought, inconsiderately

Examples

  • οὐ ταῦτ’ ἀβούλου καὶ κακοῦ γνώμην πατρόσ; (Sophocles, episode19)
  • τὰ κοινὰ συμφέροντα τῶν ἰδίων ἀπεχθειῶν ἡγουμένησ ἀναγκαιότερα, ἀλλὰ φιλονεικίασ ἀκαίρου καὶ δυσμενείασ ἀβούλου καὶ φθόνου κακοδαίμονοσ, ὃσ οὐκ ἐᾷ τοὺσ ἔχοντασ αὐτὸν σωφρονεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 18 4:1)
  • φορᾶσ ἀβούλου μεστὸσ ἀνὴρ καὶ μανικὸν ἔχων τὸ τολμηρόν, ἰδιογνωμονήσασ καὶ ὑφ’ ἑαυτῷ ποιήσασ πάντα τὰ τοῦ πολέμου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 16, chapter 3 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. inconsiderate

Related

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

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