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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

  • οὐδεὶσ γοῦν τὸ πρῶτον ἐντυχὼν οὐκ ἀπῆλθε δόξαν λαβὼν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ὡσ εἰή πάντων ἀνθρώπων χρηστότατοσ καὶ ἐπιεικέστατοσ καὶ προσέτι ἁπλοϊκώτατόσ τε καὶ ἀφελέστατοσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 4:10)
  • "Κλεομένησ δὲ πολὺ διενέγκασ τῷ τε συνιδεῖν πράγματα, καίτοι νέοσ ὢν, καὶ κατὰ τὴν δίαιταν ἀφελέστατοσ γέγονεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 208)

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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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