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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)
  • "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)
  • ἵλαοσ, ὦ δαίμων, ἵλαοσ εἴ τι γᾷ ματέρι τυγχάνεισ ἀφεγγὲσ φέρων. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 22)
  • ὦ φῶσ ἀφεγγέσ, πρόσθε πού ποτ’ ἦσθ’ ἐμόν, νῦν δ’ ἔσχατόν σου τοὐμὸν ἅπτεται δέμασ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode33)

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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