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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

  • ἐπειδή σοι τὰσ ἰδέασ ὑπεδείξαμεν τοῦ πολιτικοῦ λόγου καὶ τὰσ ἀρετὰσ αὐτοῦ, δεῖ σε ἀκοῦσαι καὶ περὶ τῆσ ἰδέασ τοῦ ἀφελοῦσ λόγου· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 1 2:1)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτωσ ἐπεσκέφθαι χρὴ ὡσ τὰσ ποιότητασ τοῦ ἀφελοῦσ λόγου καὶ τοῦ ἁπλοῦ καὶ τὰσ διαφορὰσ αὐτοῦ πρὸσ τὸν πολιτικὸν λόγον καὶ ἀγωνιστικόν, ὅπερ οὐ ῥᾴδιον μέν ἐστιν διὰ τὸ εἶναι ἓν γένοσ παντὸσ λόγου καὶ μίαν φύσιν, ὅμωσ γε μήν εἰσί τινεσ παραλλαγαὶ καὶ ἰδέαι, αἳ διαφέρουσιν ἀλλήλων. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 1 2:2)
  • καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἀφελοῦσ λόγου μεταχείρισισ, ὅταν μὴ φανερὸν ᾖ ὡσ πρότασισ τὸ λεγόμενον. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 6:3)
  • καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ θεώρημα τοῦ ἀφελοῦσ λόγου, ὅτι μὴ ἐκ παντὸσ τρόπου διώκειν τὰ ἔνδοξα καὶ μεγάλα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ δοκοῦντα φαῦλα εἶναι καὶ εὐκαταφρόνητα. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 7:2)
  • ἐν γὰρ τῷ ἀφελεῖ λόγῳ οὔτε βία ἐστὶν οὔτε θυμὸσ οὔτε σφοδρότησ, οὐδὲ ἡ διάθεοισ ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων τοιαύτη τίσ ἐστιν, οὐδ’ ὡσ ἐπισημήνασθαι τὴν φύσιν τοῦ ἐπαγομένου, καὶ τούτῳ μάλιστα χαρακτηρίζεται τὸ εἶδοσ τοῦ ἀφελοῦσ λόγου. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 13:6)

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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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