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ἀφιλόσοφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφιλόσοφος ἀφιλόσοφη ἀφιλόσοφον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + φιλοσοφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unphilosophic

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τε θεωρίασ ἀπείργει χάριν ἐχούσησ οὐκ ἀφιλόσοφον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 30 3:1)
  • καὶ παιδιὰν ὁ πότοσ ἔσχεν οὐκ ἄχαριν οὐδ’ ἀφιλόσοφον. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 34 4:5)
  • τὸ θνητὸν τελευτῷ, ταῦτα προορώμενοι τῇ τοῦ περιγενησομένου πώματοσ ἐδέσματόσ τε ἕξει τὴν ὀνομαζομένην κάτω κοιλίαν ὑποδοχὴν ἔθεσαν, εἵλιξάν τε πέριξ τὴν τῶν ἐντέρων γένεσιν, ὅπωσ μὴ ταχὺ διεκπερῶσα ἡ τροφὴ ταχὺ πάλιν τροφῆσ ἑτέρασ δεῖσθαι τὸ σῶμα ἀναγκάζοι, καὶ παρέχουσα ἀπληστίαν, διὰ γαστριμαργίαν ἀφιλόσοφον καὶ ἄμουσον πᾶν ἀποτελοῖ τὸ γένοσ, ἀνυπήκοον τοῦ θειοτάτου τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 363:1)

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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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