Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄδηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδηλος ἄδηλη ἄδηλον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + δηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not seen or known, unknown, obscure
  2. by an unknown hand, secret, to nothing, unseen, unobserved by
  3. it is uncertain, unknown, uncertain
  4. secretly

Examples

  • ἔστι δ’ ἄδηλοσ καὶ ἄγνωστοσ ἐν τῷ παντὶ πόλῳ καὶ κατὰ μικρὰ καὶ σποράδην φερόμενοσ· (Plutarch, An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum, section 6 2:1)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐχ ὡσ οὐ φιλοσοφητέον φημί, ἀλλ̓ ἐπείπερ φιλοσοφητέον ὁδοί τε πολλαί εἰσιν ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν ἑκάστη καὶ ἀρετὴν ἄγειν φάσκουσαι, ἡ δὲ ἀληθὴσ ἐν αὐταῖσ ἄδηλοσ, ἀκριβῆ ποιήσασθαι τὴν διαίρεσιν. (Lucian, 107:2)
  • ἥ τ’ ἄδηλοσ αὕτη τύχη πόρρωθεν ἡμῖν καὶ ἔτ’ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἠκολούθηκεν οὐδ’ ἐφ’ ἑνὶ ὑγιεῖ, φυομένοισ τε μίγνυταί τισ ἐν πᾶσι κακοῦ μοῖρα· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 6 9:4)
  • βαλλομένων γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἄκρασ ἤδη τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἄρατον καὶ μαχομένων, ἀλαλαγμὸσ ἐναγώνιοσ ἐχώρει κάτω, καὶ κραυγὴ περιήχει, διὰ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ὀρῶν ἀνάκλασιν συγκεχυμένη καὶ ἄδηλοσ ὅθεν εἴληφε τὴν ἀρχήν, διαπορούντων δὲ αὐτῶν ἐφ’ ὅ τι χρὴ τραπέσθαι μέροσ, Ἀρχέλαοσ ὁ τῶν βασιλικῶν ἡγεμὼν στρατιώτασ ἔχων πολλοὺσ μετὰ κραυγῆσ ἀνέβαινε καὶ σαλπίγγων, ἐπιφερόμενοσ τοῖσ περὶ τὸν Ἄρατον, καὶ παρήλλαττε τοὺσ τριακοσίουσ, οἱ δὲ ὥσπερ ἐξ ἐνέδρασ ἀναστάντεσ ἐμβάλλουσιν αὐτῷ καὶ διαφθείρουσιν οἷσ ἐπέθεντο πρώτοισ, τοὺσ δὲ ἄλλουσ καὶ τὸν Ἀρχέλαον φοβήσαντεσ ἐτρέψαντο καὶ κατεδίωξαν ἄχρι τοῦ σκεδασθῆναι περὶ τὴν πόλιν διαλυθέντασ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 22 3:1)
  • ἄδηλοσ̓, ταχὺ δὲ περιϊὼν ὁ λόγοσ ἤθροιζε πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ πρὸσ τὴν ὄψιν· (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 6 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. not seen or known

  2. it is uncertain

  3. secretly

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Derived

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

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