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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

  • μὴ καὶ ἀφέλῃ ὑμῶν τὴν διαθήκην τοῦ θανάτου, καὶ ἡ ἐλπὶσ ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸσ τὸν ᾅδην οὐ μὴ ἐμμείνῃ. καταιγὶσ φερομένη ἐὰν ἐπέλθῃ, ἔσεσθε αὐτῇ εἰσ καταπάτημα. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 28:18)
  • ὅταν μὲν οὖν τὴν ἰσχνὴν καὶ ἀφελῆ καὶ ἀποίητον ἐπιτηδεύῃ φράσιν, ἐκτόπωσ ἡδεῖά ἐστι καὶ φιλάνθρωποσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 3:1)
  • διὰ τοῦτο ἐχρῆν σε προαρπάσαι τὸν ἔρωτα καὶ καθυποκρίνασθαι Ἐνιπέα ἀντὶ Ποσειδῶνοσ εἶναι καὶ κατασοφίσασθαι τὴν Τυρὼ ἀφελῆ κόρην οὖσαν; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, enipeus and poseidon, chapter 22)
  • οὐδὲ τὴν σύνθεσιν ἐπιδείκνυται τὴν φυσικὴν καὶ ἀφελῆ καὶ ἐναγώνιον, ὥσπερ ἡ Λυσίου, ἀλλὰ πεποιημένην μᾶλλον εἰσ σεμνότητα πομπικὴν καὶ ποικίλην καὶ πῇ μὲν εὐπρεπεστέραν ἐκείνησ πῇ δὲ περιεργοτέραν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 2 1:3)
  • ἄλλωσ τε οὐδὲ σχοῖεν ἄν τι ἄλλο πρὸσ ὅ τι χρὴ ἀποκλίναντασ αὐτοὺσ παρέχειν αὑτοὺσ ἐνεργούσ,^ ἀλλ’ ἤν τισ αὐτῶν ἀφέλῃ τοῦτο, ἄτεχνοι αὐτίκα καὶ ἀργοὶ καὶ περιττοὶ εἰσιν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 4:5)

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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