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ἀφιλότιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφιλότιμος

Structure: ἀφιλοτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without due ambition

Examples

  • "τὸν δὲ δὴ φόβον οὐδενὸσ ἧττον ἐμποδὼν ὄντα βουλευομένοισ ἐξελαύνει, καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἄλλων παθῶν ἀφιλότιμα καὶ ἀγεννῆ κατασβέννυσι, καὶ τὸ κακόηθεσ καὶ τὸ ὓπουλον ὥσπερ τινὰσ διπλόασ ἀναπτύσσει τῆσ ψυχῆσ, καὶ παντὸσ ἤθουσ καὶ πάθουσ ποιεῖ καταφάνειαν ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 5:11)

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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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