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ἀφυής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφυής ἀφυές

Structure: ἀφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fuh/

Sense

  1. without natural talent, witless, dull, naturally unsuited
  2. simple, unschooled

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὴν δὲ τρίγλην φησὶν Ἀριστοτέλησ τρὶσ τίκτειν τοῦ ἔτουσ ἐν πέμπτῳ μορίων, τεκμαίρεσθαι λέγων τοὺσ ἁλιεῖσ τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦ γόνου τρὶσ φαινομένου περί τινασ τόπουσ, μήποτ’ οὖν ἐντεῦθέν ἐστι καὶ τὸ τῆσ ὀνομασίασ, ὡσ ἀμίαι ὅτι οὐ κατὰ μίαν φέρονται, ἀλλ’ ἀγεληδόν, σκάροσ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ σκαίρειν καὶ καρίσ, ἀφύαι δ’ ὡσ ἂν ἀφυεῖσ οὖσαι, τουτέστιν δυσφυεῖσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 125 1:2)
  • αὕτη μὲν τοίνυν, ἣν λέγω, μία κείσθω διακωλύουσα αἰτία τοῦ μήτε ἄλλο καλὸν μήτε τὰ πρὸσ τὸν πόλεμον ἱκανῶσ ἐῶσα ἀσκεῖν τὰσ πόλεισ, ἀλλ’ ἐμπόρουσ τε καὶ ναυκλήρουσ καὶ διακόνουσ πάντωσ τοὺσ φύσει κοσμίουσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπεργαζομένη, τοὺσ δὲ ἀνδρείουσ λῃστὰσ καὶ τοιχωρύχουσ καὶ ἱεροσύλουσ καὶ πολεμικοὺσ καὶ τυραννικοὺσ ποιοῦσα, καὶ μάλ’ ἐνίοτε οὐκ ἀφυεῖσ ὄντασ, δυστυχοῦντάσ γε μήν. (Plato, Laws, book 8 23:3)
  • γενόμενοι οὖν τινεσ οὕτωσ εὐφυεῖσ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ εὖ ἐξαπατᾶν καὶ πρὸσ τὸ εὖ πλεονεκτεῖν, ἴσωσ δὲ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ φιλοκερδεῖν οὐκ ἀφυεῖσ ὄντεσ, οὐκ ἀπείχοντο οὐδ’ ἀπὸ τῶν φίλων τὸ μὴ οὐ πλεονεκτεῖν αὐτῶν πειρᾶσθαι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 38:2)
  • πολλὰ δὲ λέγοντεσ ἐν ὑπερβολαῖσ ἐπ’ αὐξήσει μὲν ἑαυτῶν, μειώσει δὲ τῶν ἄλλων, ἀπειληταί τε καὶ ἀνατατικοὶ καὶ τετραγῳδημένοι ὑπάρχουσι, ταῖσ δὲ διανοίαισ ὀξεῖσ καὶ πρὸσ μάθησιν οὐκ ἀφυεῖσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 31 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. simple

Related

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

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