Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀδαής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδαής ἀδαές

Structure: ἀδαη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Da/w

Sense

  1. unknowing how

Declension

Third 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

  • "τραφεῖσα δ’ ἐν οἰκίᾳ γεωργῶν πενήτων, οὔτ’ ἀπὸ τέχνησ οὐδὲν οὔτ’ ἀπ’ ἄλλησ τινὸσ ἐμπειρίασ καὶ δυνάμεωσ ἐπιφερομένη κάτεισιν εἰσ τὸ χρηστήριον, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ὁ Ξενοφῶν οἰέται δεῖν ἐλάχιστα τὴν νύμφην ἰδοῦσαν ἐλάχιστα δ’ ἀκούσασαν εἰσ ἀνδρὸσ βαδίζειν, οὕτωσ ἄπειροσ καὶ ἀδαὴσ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἁπάντων καὶ παρθένοσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τὴν ψυχὴν τῷ θεῷ σύνεστιν. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 2211)
  • Ὕπν’ ὀδύνασ ἀδαήσ, Ὕπνε δ’ ἀλγέων, εὐαὲσ ἡμῖν ἔλθοισ, εὐαίων εὐαίων, ὦναξ· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, strophe 11)
  • οἰκτρὰ γὰρ βόσκειν, ἀδαὴσ δ’ ἔχειν μυρίον ἄχθοσ, ὃ ξυνοικεῖ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • Εὔφρων ἐξεποίησ’ οὐκ ἀδαὴσ Πάριοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , mixed meters142)
  • οὐκ ἀδαὴσ ἔγραψε Κίμων τάδε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 841)

Synonyms

  1. unknowing how

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

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