Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄφθαρτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφθαρτος ἄφθαρτη ἄφθαρτον

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

Etym.: fqei/rw

Sense

  1. uncorrupted, incorruptible

Examples

  • "οὐκοῦν ἕν τ’ εἶναι καὶ ἄκρατον ἀεὶ τῷ ἀφθάρτῳ καὶ καθαρῷ προσήκει. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 2012)
  • ἀφθάρτῳ μὲν γὰρ εἶναι καὶ τῷ κενῷ καὶ τοῖσ στοιχείοισ συμβέβηκε, δύναμιν δὲ καὶ σεισμοὶ καὶ κεραυνοὶ καὶ πνευμάτων ὁρμαὶ καὶ ῥευμάτων ἐπιφοραὶ μεγάλην ἔχουσι, δίκησ δὲ καὶ θέμιδοσ οὐδὲν ὅτι μὴ τῷ φρονεῖν καὶ λογίζεσθαι μεταλαγχάνει. (Plutarch, , chapter 6 3:1)
  • "γιγνώσκομεν οὐ μόνον κατὰ δαιμόνων ἣν λέγω δόξαν ἔχοντασ, ἀλλὰ καὶ θεῶν ὄντων τοσούτων τὸ πλῆθοσ ἑνὶ χρωμένουσ ἀιδίῳ καὶ ἀφθάρτῳ· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 19 1:1)
  • τοῦ γὰρ θείου δέδια μὴ δόξῃ τῷ ἀφθάρτῳ μάχεσθαι τὸ γεννῶν οὐχ ἧττον ἢ τὸ γεννώμενον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 13:1)
  • "Ἔτι τε οὐ τὸ πλεοναχῶσ ἐν τοῖσ τοιούτοισ εἶναι καὶ τὸ ἐνδεχόμενον καὶ ἄλλωσ πωσ ἔχειν, ἀλλ’ ἁπλῶσ μὴ εἶναι ἐν ἀφθάρτῳ καὶ μακαρίᾳ φύσει τῶν διάκρισιν ὑποβαλλόντων ἢ τάραχον μηθέν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 78:2)

Synonyms

  1. uncorrupted

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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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