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ἀδέξιος

Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδέξιος

Etym.: decia/

Sense

  1. left-handed, awkward

Examples

  • εὐθὺσ οὖν πρόσεισιν παραγγέλλων τισ ἥκειν ἐπὶ τὸ δεῖπνον, οὐκ ἀνομίλητοσ οἰκέτησ, ὃν χρὴ πρῶτον ἵλεων ποιήσασθαι, παραβύσαντα εἰσ τὴν χεῖρα, ὡσ μὴ ἀδέξιοσ εἶναι δοκῇσ, τοὐλάχιστον πέντε δραχμάσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 14:1)
  • ἂν δέ σ’ ὑποτρέχῃ ὅτι "ἀδέξιοσ αὐτῷ φανοῦμαι καὶ οὐχ ὁμοίωσ ἕξει ὡσ πρότερον", μέμνησο, ὅτι προῖκα οὐδὲν γίνεται οὐδ’ ἔστι δυνατὸν μὴ τὰ αὐτὰ ποιοῦντα [μὴ] τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι τῷ ποτέ. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. left-handed

Similar forms

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

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