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ἀφιλότιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφιλότιμος

Structure: ἀφιλοτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without due ambition

Examples

  • σὲ δ’ οὐκ ἄν τισ, ὦ κακόδαιμον, θαυμάσειεν, εἰ δυνάμενοσ οὕτω ζῆν ἀνελευθέρωσ καὶ ἀπανθρώπωσ καὶ ἀμεταδότωσ καὶ πρὸσ φίλουσ ἀπηνῶσ καὶ πρὸσ πολίτασ ἀφιλοτίμωσ, κακοπαθεῖσ καὶ ἀγρυπνεῖσ καὶ ἐργολαβεῖσ καὶ κληρονομεῖσ καὶ ὑποπίπτεισ τηλικοῦτον ἔχων τῆσ ἀπραγμοσύνησ ἐφόδιον, τὴν ἀνελευθερίαν; (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 5 7:1)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν Ἀριστοτέλουσ καὶ Θεοφράστου καὶ Καλλισθένουσ, ἔτι δ’ Ἐφόρου καὶ Δημοχάρουσ, ἱκανὰ ταῦθ’ ἡμῖν ἐστι πρὸσ τὴν Τιμαίου καταδρομήν, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἀφιλοτίμωσ πεπεισμένουσ ἀληθεύειν τὸν συγγραφέα τοῦτον. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, vi. de timaeo historico 8:1)

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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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