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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

  • ὁρᾷσ, ἄβουλοσ ὡσ κεκερτομημένη τοῖσ κερτομοῦσι γοργὸν ὄμμ’ ἀναβλέπει σὴ πατρίσ; (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, iambic21)
  • ἄβουλοσ οὖν καὶ προπετὴσ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐξ εὐτελῶν οὕτωσ ἐπὶ τὴν τηλικαύτην δύναμιν ὁρμώμενοσ; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 41)
  • ἄβουλοσ οὖν καὶ προπετὴσ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐξ εὐτελῶν οὕτωσ ἐπὶ τηλικαύτην δύναμιν ὁρμώμενοσ; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 41)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἁμάρτῃ, κεῖνοσ οὐκέτ’ ἔστ’ ἀνὴρ ἄβουλοσ οὐδ’ ἄνολβοσ, ὅστισ ἐσ κακὸν πεσὼν ἀκῆται μηδ’ ἀκίνητοσ πέλῃ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode24)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὧδ’ ἄβουλόσ ἐστ’ ἀνὴρ Αἴγισθοσ ὥστε σόν ποτ’ ἢ κἀμὸν γένοσ βλαστεῖν ἐᾶσαι, πημονὴν αὑτῷ σαφῆ. (Sophocles, episode 3:9)

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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