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ἄφυκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφυκτος ἄφυκτη ἄφυκτον

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

Etym.: feu/gw

Sense

  1. not to be shunned, from which none escape, unerring, admitting no escape, inevitable
  2. unable to escape

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπανιὼν ποικίλα, ὦ ἑταῖρε, πρὸσ ἐμαυτὸν ἐνενόουν, τὸ φιλόδοξον οἱο͂́ν τί ἐστιν ἀναλογιζόμενοσ, ὡσ μόνοσ οὗτοσ ὁ ἔρωσ ἄφυκτοσ καὶ τοῖσ πάνυ θαυμαστοῖσ εἶναι δοκοῦσιν, οὐχ ὅπωσ ἐκείνῳ τἀνδρὶ καὶ τἄλλα ἐμπλήκτωσ καὶ ἀπονενοημένωσ βεβιωκότι καὶ οὐκ ἀναξίωσ τοῦ πυρόσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 18:1)
  • ὁ δ’ ἄφυκτοσ; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 11 2:3)
  • σκέψαι δ’, ἐὰν μὴ τοῖσ ἐμοῖσ πεισθῇσ λόγοισ, οἱο͂́σ σε χειμὼν καὶ κακῶν τρικυμία ἔπεισ’ ἄφυκτοσ · (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 3:6)
  • καὶ τῶνδε ἄφυκτοσ ἡ γέννα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 367)
  • μετεξετέροισι γὰρ μεγάλησ ἐσχάρησ ἔκπτωσισ τῆσ φλεβὸσ τὸ στόμιον ἐσ μέζον εὐρύνει · εὖτε καὶ θρόμβοι ἔνδον ἐγγίγνονται καὶ μίμνουσι ἔσω, ἄφυκτοσ ἡ νοῦσοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 240)

Synonyms

  1. unable to escape

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

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