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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

  • εἰ δέ τισ ὑμᾶσ ὑποθωπεύσασ λιπαρὰσ καλέσειεν Ἀθήνασ, ηὑρ́ετο πᾶν ἂν διὰ τὰσ λιπαράσ, ἀφύων τιμὴν περιάψασ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, parabasis6)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐθορύβουν περὶ τῶν ἀφύων ἑστηκότεσ· (Aristotle, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:5)
  • κοῦφοί εἰσι καὶ τῶν ἀφύων ἐλαφρότεροι. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 48:35)
  • φαρμακοπώλησ παύομαι, καίτοι εἰδὼσ καὶ Ἐπίκουρον τὸν φιλαληθέστατον ταῦτ’ εἰπόντα περὶ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ περὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων ἐπιστολῇ, ὅτι καταφαγὼν τὰ πατρῷα ἐπὶ στρατείαν ὡρ́μησε καὶ ὅτι ἐν ταύτῃ κακῶσ πράττων ἐπὶ τὸ φαρμακοπωλεῖν ἦλθεν εἶτα ἀναπεπταμένου τοῦ Πλάτωνοσ περιπάτου, φησί, παραβαλὼν ἑαυτὸν προσεκάθισε τοῖσ λόγοισ, οὐκ ὢν ἀφυήσ, καὶ κατὰ μικρὸν εἰσ τὴν θεωρουμένην ἕξιν ἦλθεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 50 1:1)
  • 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)
  • καὶ οὐχ ὡσ Νικομήδει τῷ Βιθυνῶν βασιλεῖ ἐπιθυμήσαντι ἀφύησ μακρὰν δὲ καὶ οὗτοσ ἦν τῆσ θαλάσσησ μάγειρόσ τισ μιμησάμενοσ τὸ ἰχθύδιον παρέθηκεν ὡσ ἀφύασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 12 3:2)
  • ἐγὼ μαθητὴσ ἐγενόμην Σωτηρίδου ὃσ ἀπὸ θαλάσσησ Νικομήδει δώδεκα ὁδὸν ἀπέχοντι πρῶτοσ ἡμερῶν ποτε ἀφύησ ἐπιθυμήσαντι χειμῶνοσ μέσου; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 12 3:5)
  • θήλειαν λαβών γογγυλίδα ταύτην ἔτεμε λεπτὰ καὶ μακρά, τὴν ὄψιν αὐτῆσ τῆσ ἀφύησ μιμούμενοσ ἀποζέσασ, ἔλαιον ἐπιχέασ, ἅλασ δοὺσ μουσικῶσ, μήκωνοσ ἐπιπάσασ ἄνω ακόκκουσ μελαίνησ τετταράκοντα τὸν ἀριθμόν, περὶ τὴν Σκυθίαν ἔπαυσε τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 12 4:4)
  • καὶ Νικομήδησ γογγυλίδα μασώμενοσ ἀφύησ τότ’ ἔλεγε τοῖσ φίλοισ ἐγκώμιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 12 5:1)

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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