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ἀφανής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφανής ἀφανές

Structure: ἀφανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nomai

Sense

  1. unseen, invisible, viewless, blind
  2. to disappear, be missing, missing
  3. unseen, unnoticed, secret, without being noticed
  4. unknown, uncertain, obscure, uncertainty
  5. unnoticed, obscure
  6. personal, which can be made away with, (real)

Examples

  • Ταραντῖνοσ Εὐάγγελοσ τοὔνομα τῶν οὐκ ἀφανῶν ἐν τῷ Τάραντι ἐπεθύμησεν νικῆσαι Πύθια. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 8:2)
  • ἦν δὲ τὸ μὲν γένοσ Κύπριοσ, οὐ τῶν ἀφανῶν ὅσα εἰσ ἀξίωμα πολιτικὸν καὶ κτῆσιν. (Lucian, (no name) 3:1)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν κεφάλαιον τῆσ ὑποσχέσεωσ,^ μιμητικὴ τίσ ἐστιν ἐπιστήμη καὶ δεικτικὴ καὶ τῶν ἐννοηθέντων ἐξαγορευτικὴ καὶ τῶν ἀφανῶν σαφηνιστική, καὶ ὅπερ ὁ Θουκυδίδησ περὶ τοῦ Περικλέουσ ἔφη ἐπαινῶν τὸν ἄνδρα, τοῦτο καὶ τὸ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ ἀκρότατον ἂν ἐγκώμιον εἰή, γνῶναί τε τὰ δέοντα καὶ ἑρμηνεῦσαι αὐτά· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 36:3)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐ τῶν ἀφανῶν ἐν Ἀκράγαντι ὤν, ἀλλ’ εἰ καί τισ ἄλλοσ εὖ γεγονὼσ καὶ τραφεὶσ ἐλευθερίωσ καὶ παιδείᾳ προσεσχηκώσ, ἀεὶ διετέλουν τῇ μὲν πόλει δημοτικὸν ἐμαυτὸν παρέχων, τοῖσ δὲ συμπολιτευομένοισ ἐπιεικῆ καὶ μέτριον, βίαιον δὲ ἢ σκαιὸν ἢ ὑβριστικὸν ἢ αὐθέκαστον οὐδεὶσ οὐδὲν ἐπεκάλει μου τῷ προτέρῳ ἐκείνῳ βίῳ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 2:1)
  • ὥστε τί ἄν σοι τὸ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἔτι λέγοιμι, ὅσασ μὲν χρείασ παρέχεται ὁ χρυσόσ, ὡσ δὲ οἷσ ἂν παρῇ, καλούσ τε αὐτοὺσ καὶ σοφοὺσ καὶ ἰσχυροὺσ ἀπεργάζεται τιμὴν καὶ δόξαν προσάπτων, καὶ ἐξ ἀφανῶν καὶ ἀδόξων ἐνίοτε περιβλέπτουσ καὶ ἀοιδίμουσ ἐν βραχεῖ τίθησι; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 13:6)

Synonyms

  1. unseen

  2. unknown

  3. unnoticed

Similar forms

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

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