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ἄφρακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφρακτος ἄφρακτη ἄφρακτον

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

Etym.: fra/ssw

Sense

  1. unfenced, unfortified, unguarded, by
  2. not to be kept in, irrepressible
  3. unguarded, off one's guard

Examples

  • καὶ ὃ νῦν ἐφ’ ἡμῶν ἰδεῖν ἔστι, μιᾷ καθ’ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ἢ δυσὶν ἀφράκτοισ ἀπαντᾶν εἰσ Κόρινθον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 135:3)
  • οἱ μὲν δὴ θύσαντεσ ἐσ Σικελίαν ἔπλεον ὡσ ἐκεῖθεν ἐσ τὴν Ἰτύκην διαβαλοῦντεσ, ναυσὶ δ’ ἐφέροντο πεντήκοντα μὲν πεντήρεσιν, ἑκατὸν δ’ ἡμιολίαισ, ἀφράκτοισ δὲ καὶ κερκούροισ καὶ στρογγύλοισ πολλοῖσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 2:4)
  • κυνηγετεῖ δ’ ἐν μὲν τοῖσ περιφράγμασιν ἀπὸ βήματοσ τοξεύων παρεστᾶσι δ’ ἔνοπλοι δύο ἢ τρεῖσ γυναῖκεσ, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἀφράκτοισ θήραισ ἀπ’ ἐλέφαντοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 110:14)

Synonyms

  1. unguarded

Related

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

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