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ἀδολέσχης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδολέσχης

Structure: ἀδολεσχ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from a)/dhn le/sxh, talking to satiety.

Sense

  1. a garrulous fellow, idle talker

Declension

First 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

  • ἐγὼ τοὺσ λόγουσ τὸν μὲν ἰδιώτην ἐπιστάμενοσ ὄντα, τὸν ἀδολέσχην τοῦτον λέγω καὶ φλύαρον, τὸν δὲ πολιτικόν, ἐν ᾧ τὸ πολὺ κατεσκευασμένον ἐστὶ καὶ ἔντεχνον, ὅ τι μὲν ἂν τῶν ποιημάτων ὅμοιον εὑρίσκω τῷ φλυάρῳ καὶ ἀδολέσχῃ, γέλωτοσ ἄξιον τίθεμαι, ὅ τι δ’ ἂν τῷ κατεσκευασμένῳ καὶ ἐντέχνῳ, ζήλου καὶ σπουδῆσ ἐπιτήδειον τυγχάνειν οἰόμαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2610)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τὸν ἀδολέσχην οὐχ οὕτωσ ἔχομεν, ἀλλὰ πᾶσαν ἔργου χάριν ἡ τῶν λόγων ἀκαιρία διαφθείρει καὶ ἀπόλλυσι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 4 5:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔστιν ὡσ χαλινῶν ἐφαψαμένουσ ἐπισχεῖν τὸν ἀδολέσχην, ἀλλ’ ἔθει δεῖ κρατῆσαι τοῦ νοσήματοσ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 191)
  • καὶ μὴν ὥσπερ ὁ Σωκράτησ ἐκέλευε φυλάττεσθαι τῶν σιτίων ὅσα μὴ πεινῶντασ ἐσθίειν ἀναπείθει καὶ τῶν πομάτων ὅσα πίνειν μὴ διψῶντασ, οὕτω χρὴ καὶ τῶν λόγων τὸν ἀδολέσχην, οἷσ ἥδεται μάλιστα καὶ κέχρηται κατακόρωσ, τούτουσ φοβεῖσθαι καὶ πρὸσ τούτουσ ἐπιρρέοντασ ἀντιβαίνειν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 221)
  • τὸν δ’ ἀδολέσχην ἴσωσ ἂν ἡ πρὸσ τὸ γραφεῖον σκιαμαχία καὶ βοὴ τοῦ πλήθουσ ἀπερύκουσα α καθ’ ἡμέραν ἐλαφρότερον παρασκευάσειε τοῖσ συνοῦσιν, ὥσπερ οἱ κύνεσ εἰσ λίθουσ καὶ ξύλα τὸν θυμὸν ἀφέντεσ ἧττόν εἰσι χαλεποὶ τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 23 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a garrulous fellow

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

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