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ἀφάνεια

Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφάνεια

Etym.: From a)fanh/s

Sense

  1. obscurity, want of illustrious
  2. disappearance, utter destruction

Examples

  • οὐδ’ αὖ κατὰ πενίαν, ἔχων δέ τι ἀγαθὸν δρᾶσαι τὴν πόλιν, ἀξιώματοσ ἀφανείᾳ κεκώλυται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 44)
  • τῶν ἀπειράτων γὰρ ἄγνωστοι σιωπαί, ἔστιν δ’ ἀφάνεια τύχασ καὶ μαρναμένων, πρὶν τέλοσ ἄκρον ἱκέσθαι· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 4 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. disappearance

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

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