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ἀφιλότιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφιλότιμος

Structure: ἀφιλοτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without due ambition

Examples

  • ἐκ τούτου δὲ καὶ κρίνειν τὰ καλὰ καὶ πολυπραγμονεῖν εὐθὺσ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ εἰθίζοντο περὶ τῶν πολιτῶν, τὸ γὰρ ἐρωτηθέντα, τίσ πολίτησ ἀγαθόσ, ἢ τίσ οὐκ εὐδόκιμοσ, ἀπορεῖν τοῦ ἀποκρίνασθαι, νωθρᾶσ ἐποιοῦντο καὶ πρὸσ ἀρετὴν ἀφιλοτίμου ψυχῆσ σημεῖον. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 18 2:3)

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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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