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ἀφεγγής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφεγγής ἀφεγγές

Structure: ἀφεγγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fe/ggos

Sense

  1. without light, that is no light
  2. obscure, dim, faint
  3. ill-starred, unlucky

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ μέτρ’ ἀνθρώποισι καὶ μέρη σταθμῶν Ἰσότησ ἔταξε κἀριθμὸν διώρισε, νυκτόσ τ’ ἀφεγγὲσ βλέφαρον ἡλίου τε φῶσ ἴσον βαδίζει τὸν ἐνιαύσιον κύκλον, κοὐδέτερον αὐτῶν φθόνον ἔχει νικώμενον. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 9:28)
  • καὶ θεάματα κορασιώδη παραβαλεῖν ἄξιον, ἃ μηδενὸσ ὁρῶντοσ μηδὲ προσβλέποντοσ ὄντωσ τυφλὸσ γίγνεται καὶ ἀφεγγὴσ ὁ πλοῦτοσ; (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 10 3:2)
  • σκοτεινότατον μὲν οὖν ἁπάντων καὶ ἀφεγγέστατον. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 17 7:2)
  • "τὸν γὰρ ἀντιφραττόμενον ὑπὸ τῆσ γῆσ τόπον εἰ μὴ σκιάν τισ ἐθέλοι καλεῖν ἀλλ’ ἀφεγγὲσ χωρίον, ὅμωσ ἀναγκαῖον ἐν αὐτῷ τὴν σελήνην γενομένην . (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 21 4:2)
  • τίσ ἀχώ, τίσ ὀδμὰ προσέπτα μ’ ἀφεγγήσ, θεόσυτοσ, ἢ βρότειοσ, ἢ κεκραμένη; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric2)
  • καὶ εἴ τισ ἄρα τὰσ ἀνθρωπίνουσ ψυχὰσ ἀπολυθείσασ τοῦ σώματοσ ὑποδέξεται τόποσ, οὐχ ὁ καταχθόνιοσ καὶ ἀφεγγὴσ ὑποδέξεται τὴν ἐμήν, ἐν ᾧ φασι τοὺσ κακοδαίμονασ οἰκεῖν, οὐδὲ τὸ λεγόμενον τῆσ Λήθησ πεδίον, ἀλλ’ ὁ μετέωροσ καὶ καθαρὸσ αἰθήρ, ἐν ᾧ τοὺσ ἐκ θεῶν φύντασ οἰκεῖν λόγοσ εὐδαίμονα καὶ μακάριον ἔχοντασ βίον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 52 6:1)
  • ὦ δεινὴ καὶ ἀφεγγὴσ ἡμέρα, ἣ τὰσ φωσφόρουσ νύκτασ ἐξεῖλεσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:12)

Synonyms

  1. without light

  2. obscure

  3. ill-starred

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

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