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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

  • σμικρὸν τὸ πλῆθοσ τῆσδε γῆσ, οἳ δ’ ἄφθονοι. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode19)
  • τί δύστην’ ὄλβοιο Φιλόστρατε, ποῦ σοι ἐκεῖνα σκῆπτρα καὶ αἱ βασιλέων ἄφθονοι ἐντυχίαι,^ αἷσιν ἐπῃώρησασ ἀεὶ βίον; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 6451)
  • οἳ δὲ ἄφθονοί σφι ἐκ τοῦ Ἀράξεω ποταμοῦ παραγίνονται· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 216 4:3)
  • οἳ δὲ σφι ἄφθονοι ὅσοι ἐν τοῖσι ὄρεσι γίνονται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 194 1:3)
  • εὔχεται μὲν γὰρ πρὸ τοῦ ἀγάλματοσ ὁ τῷ θεῷ χρώμενοσ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ εὐχῇ λαβὼν ἀστραγάλουσ ‐ οἱ δὲ ἄφθονοι παρὰ τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ κεῖνται ‐ τέσσαρασ ἀφίησιν ἐπὶ τῆσ τραπέζησ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 17:3)

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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