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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

  • "Φῶκοσ εἶπεν ὅπωσ ἂν ἡ βουλὴ ἄγῃ τὰ Ἀπατούρια μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων Ἀθηναίων κατὰ τὰ πάτρια, ἐψηφίσθαι τῇ βουλῇ ἀφεῖσθαι τοὺσ βουλευτὰσ τὰσ ἡμέρασ ἅσπερ καὶ αἱ ἄλλαι ἀρχαὶ αἱ ἀφεταὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἧσ οἱ προτένθαι ἄγουσι πέντε ἡμέρασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 71 3:1)
  • ἐπὶ τούτου δὲ τῷ χώρῳ οὔνομα γέγονε Ἀφέται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 193 3:3)
  • πλησίον δὲ καὶ Ἀφέται ὡσ ἂν ἀφετήριόν τι τῶν Ἀργοναυτῶν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 21:6)

Related

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

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