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ἀφελής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφελής ἀφελές

Structure: ἀφελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: felleu/s?

Sense

  1. without a stone, even, smooth, simple, plain, blunt, simply, roughly

Examples

  • παρὰ δὲ Ἰσαίῳ κατεσκεύασται τὸ δοκοῦν εἶναι ἀφελὲσ καὶ οὐ λέληθεν, ὅτι ἐστὶ ῥητορικόν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 7 1:4)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἀποίητόν τε καὶ ἀφελὲσ τοιοῦτον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 203)
  • καὶ πρόσεστι τούτοισ τὸ λεῖον τῆσ ἑρμηνείασ καὶ τὸ ἀφελὲσ τῆσ κατασκευῆσ, ὦν μάλιστα δεῖ τοῖσ ὑπ’ οἰκείων προοιμιαζομένοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 24 1:8)
  • Καὶ τοῦτο γάρ, ὦ Ἥρα, ζηλοτυπεῖσ ἤδη ἀφελὲσ οὕτω καὶ ἀλυπότατον; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:2)
  • εἶτα ἑώρων γύναιόν τι οὐχ ἁπλοϊκόν, εἰ καὶ ὅτι μάλιστα εἰσ τὸ ἀφελὲσ καὶ ἀκόσμητον ἑαυτὴν ἐπερρύθμιζεν, ἀλλὰ κατεφάνη μοι αὐτίκα οὐδὲ τὸ ἄνετον δοκοῦν τῆσ κόμησ ἀκαλλώπιστον ἐῶσα οὐδὲ τοῦ ἱματίου τὴν ἀναβολὴν ἀνεπιτηδεύτωσ περιστέλλουσα· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 12:2)

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

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