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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

  • ἐπιδεικνυμένου πόθ’, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ἀφυοῦσ κιθαρῳδοῦ τὸν μαθητὴν τοῖσ φίλοισ, παρὼν κατὰ τύχην ὁ Στρατόνικοσ τοῦτ’ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 41 9:1)
  • εὐθέτωσ δὲ καὶ πρὸ ὁδοῦ ἄνθρωποσ ὤν φύσει γὰρ αὐτῷ ἀγαθὰ τὰ ἁπλῶσ ἀγαθά, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ἀνὴρ ἀντὶ γυναικὸσ καὶ εὐφυὴσ ἀφυοῦσ, διὰ τοῦ ἡδέοσ δὲ ἡ ὁδόσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 56:4)
  • εἰσ εἰκόνα ῥήτοροσ ἀφυοῦσ τίσ σὲ τὸν οὐ λαλέοντα τύπῳ ῥητῆροσ ἔγραψε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 3181)
  • ἐγὼ οὖν δεδηγμένοσ τε ὑπὸ ἀλγεινοτέρου καὶ τὸ ἀλγεινότατον ὧν ἄν τισ δηχθείη ‐ τὴν καρδίαν γὰρ ἢ ψυχὴν ἢ ὅτι δεῖ αὐτὸ ὀνομάσαι πληγείσ τε καὶ δηχθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ λόγων, οἳ ἔχονται ἐχίδνησ ἀγριώτερον, νέου ψυχῆσ μὴ ἀφυοῦσ ὅταν λάβωνται, καὶ ποιοῦσι δρᾶν τε καὶ λέγειν ὁτιοῦν ‐ καὶ ὁρῶν αὖ Φαίδρουσ, Ἀγάθωνασ, Ἐρυξιμάχουσ, Παυσανίασ, Ἀριστοδήμουσ τε καὶ Ἀριστοφάνασ· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 491:1)

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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