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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

  • εἰ δὲ δεῖ καὶ τὰ δυστυχηθέντα μὴ παντάπασι ποιεῖσθαι δαίμονοσ, ἀλλ’ ἠθικὰσ καὶ παθητικὰσ ζητεῖν ἐν αὐτοῖσ διαφοράσ, θυμοῦ μὲν ἀλογίστου καὶ τάχοσ ἐχούσησ ἄβουλον ὀργῆσ μήτε τισ ἐκεῖνον ἐν τοῖσ πρὸσ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀπολυέτω μήτε τοῦτον ἐν τοῖσ πρὸσ τὸν υ ἱόν ἡ δὲ κινήσασα τὸν θυμὸν ἀρχὴ μᾶλλον παραιτεῖται τὸν ὑπὸ μείζονοσ αἰτίασ ὥσπερ ὑπὸ πληγῆσ χαλεπωτέρασ ἀνατραπέντα. (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 3 1:1)
  • ἐπεὶ τίσ ὧδε τέκνοισι Ζῆν’ ἄβουλον εἶδεν; (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, epode3)
  • τί τὴν ἄβουλον, ὦ ταλαίπωροι, στάσιν γλώσσησ ἐπήρασθ’ οὐδ’ ἐπαισχύνεσθε γῆσ οὕτω νοσούσησ ἴδια κινοῦντεσ κακά; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:1)
  • ἐγὼ οὔτ’ ἄνανδρον τήνδε τὴν πόλιν νέμων, ὦ τέκνον Αἰγέωσ, οὔτ’ ἄβουλον, ὡσ σὺ φῄσ, τοὔργον τόδ’ ἐξέπραξα, γιγνώσκων δ’ ὅτι οὐδείσ ποτ’ αὐτοὺσ τῶν ἐμῶν ἂν ἐμπέσοι ζῆλοσ ξυναίμων, ὥστ’ ἐμοῦ τρέφειν βίᾳ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 5:1)

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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