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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

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ αἱ δωρεαὶ κατεπράυνον αὐτόν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ τὸν Ἆπιν ἐν ἀφθόνοισ διαιτώμενον καὶ τρυφᾶν δοκοῦντα τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν βίου καὶ δρόμων ἀφέτων καὶ σκιρτήσεων ἵμεροσ ἔχει, καὶ δῆλόσ ἐστι δυσανασχετῶν τὴν ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶ τῶν ἱερέων διατριβήν, οὕτωσ ἐκεῖνον οὐδὲν ἤρεσκε τῶν μαλθακῶν, ἀλλὰ φθινύθεσκε φίλον κῆρ, ὥσπερ Ἀχιλλεύσ, αὖθι μένων, ποθέεσκε δ’ ἀυτήν τε πτόλεμόν τε. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 34 3:1)
  • ἀφέτων ὄντων ταύρων ἐν τῷ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνοσ ἱερῷ, μόνοι γιγνόμενοι δέκα ὄντεσ, ἐπευξάμενοι τῷ θεῷ τὸ κεχαρισμένον αὐτῷ θῦμα ἑλεῖν, ἄνευ σιδήρου ξύλοισ καὶ βρόχοισ ἐθήρευον, ὃν δὲ ἕλοιεν τῶν ταύρων, πρὸσ τὴν στήλην προσαγαγόντεσ κατὰ κορυφὴν αὐτῆσ ἔσφαττον κατὰ τῶν γραμμάτων. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 92:2)
  • λευκόγεων γάρ ἐστι τὸ χωρίον Ἄρνησ πλησίον καὶ τῶν Ἀφετῶν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 27:20)

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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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