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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

  • καίτοι τὰ μὲν Ἀσκληπιάδου Μηόδοτοσ ὁ ἐμπειρικὸσ ἀφύκτωσ ἐξελέγχει, τήν τε πρὸσ τὰ φαινόμενα μάχην ὑπομιμνήσκων αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν πρὸσ ἄλληλα· (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1456)
  • τότε δὲ ἐπολιορκέετο ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων οὔτε παρεσκευασμένοσ ἐσ πολιορκίην οὔτε προσδεκόμενοσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ, ἀφύκτωσ δέ κωσ αὐτῷ ἐπέπεσον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 116 4:7)
  • ἢ πῶσ οὐ τούσ γε σοὺσ ὁρ́ουσ ἐκπεφεύγασιν, οὓσ ἔστησασ αὐτοῖσ ὡσ ἀφύκτωσ καὶ βεβαίωσ αἱρήσων; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 157:12)

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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