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ἄφετος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφετος ἄφετη ἄφετον

Structure: ἀφετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)fi/hmi

Sense

  1. let loose, at large, ranging at will, were free from work, dedicated to a god, freedom from restraint

Examples

  • ἔτι δὲ θαυμάσειεν ἄν τισ καὶ τῆσ ὀροφῆσ ἐν τῷ εὐμόρφῳ τὸ ἀπέριττον κἀν τῷ εὐκόσμῳ τὸ ἀνεπίληπτον καὶ τὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ ἐσ τὸ εὐπρεπὲσ σύμμετρον, ἀλλὰ μὴ παρὰ τὰσ χρείασ ἐπίφθονον, ἀλλ’ ὁπόσον ἂν καὶ γυναικὶ σώφρονι καὶ καλῇ ἀρκέσῃ ἐπισημότερον ἐργάσασθαι τὸ κάλλοσ, ἢ περὶ τῇ δειρῇ λεπτόσ τισ ὁρ́μοσ ἢ περὶ τῷ δακτύλῳ σφενδόνη εὔφοροσ ἢ ἐν τοῖν ὤτοιν ἐλλόβια ἢ πόρπη τισ ἢ ταινία τὸ ἄφετον τῆσ κόμησ συνδέουσα, τοσοῦτον τῇ εὐμορφίᾳ προστιθεῖσα ὅσον τῇ ἐσθῆτι ἡ πορφύρα· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:1)
  • ἄφετόν με νῦν. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 2:54)
  • μὲν παισὶ παιδαγωγοὺσ καὶ διδασκάλουσ ἐπέστησαν, τὴν δὲ τῶν μειρακίων ὁρμὴν ἄφετον εἰάσαν νέμεσθαι, δέον αὖ τοὐναντίον πλείω τῶν μειρακίων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν εὐλάβειαν καὶ φυλακὴν ἢ τῶν παίδων. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 16 1:2)
  • ἔνιοι δὲ κοινῶσ τὸν ἄφετον καὶ ἱερωμένον. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 32 4:3)
  • τέλοσ δ’ ἐναργὴσ βάξισ ἦλθεν Ἰνάχῳ σαφῶσ ἐπισκήπτουσα καὶ μυθουμένη ἔξω δόμων τε καὶ πάτρασ ὠθεῖν ἐμέ, ἄφετον ἀλᾶσθαι γῆσ ἐπ’ ἐσχάτοισ ὁρ́οισ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 3:4)

Related

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

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