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ἄφαντος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφαντος ἄφαντη ἄφαντον

Structure: ἀφαντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nomai

Sense

  1. made invisible, blotted out, forgotten, hidden, to disappear
  2. in secret
  3. obscure

Examples

  • ἐσ δόμουσ δ’ ἡμεῖσ ἄφαντοι δυσόμεσθ’ Ἡρακλέουσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, trochees12)
  • Ἰλίου ἐξαπολοίατ’ ἀκήδεστοι καὶ ἄφαντοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 87 4:4)
  • αἱ δὲ κεροτυπούμεναι βίᾳ χειμῶνι τυφῶ σὺν ζάλῃ τ’ ὀμβροκτύπῳ ᾤχοντ’ ἄφαντοι ποιμένοσ κακοῦ στρόβῳ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 5:9)
  • καί νύ κεν αὐτοῦ πάντεσ ἀπὸ ζωῆσ ἐλίασθεν νώνυμνοι καὶ ἄφαντοι ἐπιχθονίοισι δαῆναι ἡρώων οἱ ἄριστοι ἀνηνύστῳ ἐπ’ ἀέθλῳ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 20:43)
  • " Ὧσ ἄρ’ ἔφαν, καὶ ἄφαντοι ἵν’ ἔσταθεν, ἔνθ’ ἄρα ταίγε φθογγῇ ὁμοῦ ἐγένοντο παρασχεδόν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 21:10)

Synonyms

  1. in secret

  2. obscure

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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