Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀέκων

; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀέκων

Sense

  1. against one's will, unwilling, multa reluctans, invito Jove, unwillingly
  2. involuntary

Examples

  • "ὦ βασιλεῦ, τάδε τοι ἐγὼ ὀρρωδέων, εὖτέ με ταύτην ὁδὸν ἔπεμπεσ, ἀέκων ᾖον καὶ ἐπεί με ἀναγκαίη μεγάλη ἐκ σέο κατέλαβεν, τοιάδε ἐπετέλεσα, ἐσθλά μὲν ἐσ δεσπότεα, ἐμοὶ δὲ οὐκ εὐτυχέα. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 25:2)
  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ γοῦν ἐν Ἐλπίδι φησίν ἐκάλεσε γάρ τύ τισ ἐπ’ αἶκλον ἀέκων,3 τὺ δὲ ἑκὼν ᾤχεο τρέχων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 16 4:3)
  • ἤνεγκ’ οὖν κακότατ’, ὦ ξένοι, ἤνεγκ’ ἀέκων μέν, θεὸσ ἴστω, τούτων δ’ αὐθαίρετον οὐδέν. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἀέκων τῆσ σῆσ φιλότητοσ ἁμαρτὼν ὠνήμην ἑρ́δων οἱᾶ́ τ’ ἐλεύθεροσ ὤν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389818)
  • εἰ δ’ ἀέκων ἥκω, τὴν προπέτειαν ὄρα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1182)

Synonyms

  1. against one's will

  2. involuntary

Related

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

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