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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

  • ὀρθῶσ παραινεῖσ οὐκ ἐῶν δικορραφεῖν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τάχιστ’ ἐμπιμπράναι τὴν οἰκίαν τῶν ἀδολεσχῶν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode 1:5)
  • οὐδ’ ὀψοφάγοσ οὐδ’ ἀδολέσχησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 365)
  • 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)
  • δικαιότερον ἄν τισ εἴποι πρὸσ τὸν ἀδόλεσχον, μᾶλλον δὲ περὶ τοῦ ἀδολέσχου, οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην μὴ δεχόμενον πιμπλάναι, σοφοὺσ ἐπαντλῶν ἀνδρὶ μὴ σοφῷ λόγουσ, μᾶλλον δὲ περιαντλῶν λόγουσ ἀνθρώπῳ λαλοῦντι μὲν πρὸσ τοὺσ οὐκ ἀκούοντασ, μὴ ἀκούοντι δὲ τῶν λαλούντων. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 1 1:5)
  • ὁ δ’ ἀδολέσχησ τοὐναντίον, ἂν μέν τισ ἐμπέσῃ λόγοσ, ἐξ οὗ μαθεῖν τι δύναται καὶ πυθέσθαι τῶν ἀγνοουμένων, τοῦτον ἐξωθεῖ καὶ ἐκκρούει, μισθὸν οὕτω βραχὺν δοῦναι τὸ σιωπῆσαι μὴ δυνάμενοσ· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 5:4)
  • ὁ δὲ ἀδολέσχησ τοιοῦτόσ τισ, οἱο͂σ, ὃν μὴ γιγνώσκει, τούτῳ παρακαθεζόμενοσ πλησίον πρῶτον μὲν τῆσ αὑτοῦ γυναικὸσ εἰπεῖν ἐγκώμιον· (Theophrastus, Characters, 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ περισσὸσ καὶ ἀδολέσχησ, ἄν γε δὴ τύχῃ καὶ τὸν Κολοφώνιον ἀνεγνωκὼσ Ἀντίμαχον, κτλ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , ovid trist. i. 6. 110)
  • δεινόν τε, ὦ Θεαίτητε, ὡσ ἀληθῶσ κινδυνεύει καὶ ἀηδὲσ εἶναι ἀνὴρ ἀδολέσχησ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 322:8)

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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