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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

  • ἢν δὲ ἐκπέσωσι ἔνθεν, ἄπονοί τε γίγνονται, οὐδ’ ὄναρ ἀπηλλάχθαι δοκέειν τοῦ πόνου εἰθισμένοι · ἀτὰρ καὶ ὡσ ἐξ ἀφύκτων κακῶν τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὰ μέλεα λύονται. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 285)
  • αὐτὸσ γὰρ ἄλλων ἐκ μὲν ὀμμάτων δάκρυ ἔθλιψασ, ἐν δὲ πικρὰ καρδίᾳ βέλη πήξασ ἀφύκτων ἰὸν ἔσταξασ πόθων, ἔρωσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1994)

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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