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ἄφθονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφθονος

Structure: ἀφθον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without envy
  2. free from envy
  3. ungrudging, bounteous
  4. not grudged, bounteously given, plentiful, abundant, in plenty
  5. unenvied, provoking no envy
  6. in abundance, enough

Examples

  • ἀδικήματα δὲ τοιαῦτα ῥητόρων καὶ φιλοσόφων ἄφθονα οὐ μόνον ἴσμεν αὐτοὶ γεγονότα καθ’ ἡμᾶσ, ἀλλὰ κἀν τοῖσ βιβλίοισ ἀπολελειμμένα ὑπομνήματα ἔχομεν ὧν ἠδίκησαν. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 56:5)
  • , Ταῦτά τε οὖν ἐπῄνει καὶ προσέτι τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τὴν ἐκεῖ καὶ τῆσ διαίτησ τὸ ἀνεπίφθονον, ἡσυχίαν τε καὶ ἀπραγμοσύνην, ἃ δὴ ἄφθονα παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐστιν. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 14:4)
  • πᾶσι γὰρ ἄφθονα πάντα παρέξομεν, ὥστε μεθυσθεὶσ αὐτῷ στεφάνῳ πᾶσ τισ ἄπεισιν τὴν δᾷδα λαβών. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, pnigos2)
  • ἅπαντα γὰρ ἄφθονα. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 11:3)
  • "ἡ γὰρ Αἴγυπτοσ καὶ διὰ τὴν τοῦ περιέχοντοσ ἀέροσ εὐκρασίαν καὶ διὰ τοὺσ κηπεύοντασ τὰ σπανίωσ καὶ καθ’ ὡρ́αν ἐνεστηκυῖαν ἐν ἑτέροισ φυόμενα τόποισ ἄφθονα γεννᾷ καὶ διὰ παντόσ, καὶ οὔτε ῥόδον οὔτε λευκόιον οὔτε ἄλλο ῥᾳδίωσ ἄνθοσ ἐκλιπεῖν οὐθὲν οὐδέποτ’ εἰώθεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:81)

Synonyms

  1. without envy

  2. free from envy

  3. unenvied

  4. in abundance

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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