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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

  • ἐπεὶ πάντων γε τῶν βασιλέων πρὸσ μοναρχίαν οὗτοσ ἀφυέστατοσ δοκεῖ γενέσθαι καὶ ἀπροθυμότατοσ, ὅσ γε τὴν βασιλείαν ἀποθέσθαι διανοηθεὶσ ἐκωλύθη· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 10 5:2)
  • ἐπεὶ πάντων γε τῶν βασιλέων πρὸσ μοναρχίαν οὗτοσ ἀφυέστατοσ δοκεῖ γενέσθαι καὶ ἀπροθυμότατοσ, ὅσ γε τὴν βασιλείαν ἀποθέσθαι διανοηθεὶσ ἐκωλύθη τελευτῶσα γὰρ ὡσ ἐοίκεν ἐξώρκωσε τοῦτον ἐμμεῖναι τῇ ἀρχῇ καὶ μὴ προέσθαι τὴν πάτριον Ῥωμαίων πολιτείαν. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 10 16:1)
  • πρὸσ ὃ πάντων ἀφυέστατοσ ἐτύγχανεν, ἀνὴρ ἐλευθέριοσ καὶ μεγαλόφρων, καὶ πᾶσαν ὑφ’ Ἑλλήνων ἧτταν Ἕλλησιν ἡγούμενοσ εὐπρεπεστέραν εἶναι τοῦ κολακεύειν καὶ φοιτᾶν ἐπὶ θύρασ ἀνθρώπων βαρβάρων, πολὺ χρυσίον, ἄλλο δ’ οὐδὲν καλὸν ἐχόντων. (Plutarch, , chapter 6 4:2)
  • πρὸσ δὲ ποικίλων πραγμάτων χειρισμόν, δεόμενον ἐπιστάσεωσ καὶ νήψεωσ, καὶ πρὸσ φυλακὴν χρημάτων καὶ καθόλου τὴν περὶ τὸ λυσιτελὲσ οἰκονομίαν, ἀφυέστατοσ ὑπῆρχε πάντων. (Polybius, Histories, book 16, iii. res aegypti 4:1)

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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