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ἀφύλακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφύλακτος ἀφύλακτη ἀφύλακτον

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

Etym.: fula/ssw

Sense

  1. unguarded, unwatched
  2. unguarded, off one's guard, securely, off his guard, want of precaution
  3. not to be guarded against, inevitable

Examples

  • καὶ μηδέποτε ἀφύλακτον οἰκίαν εἶναι, ὥσπερ πόλιν· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 39:2)
  • φυλακῆσ ἐκράτησα, δορυφόρουσ ἐνίκησα, τὸν τύραννον ἀφύλακτον, ἄνοπλον, γυμνὸν ἀπέδωκα. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 15:6)
  • εἰ δὲ φήσει τισ ὅτι μεγάλοισ μὲν ἀγῶσιν ὁ Δίων ἐξέβαλε τὸν τύραννον, Καίσαρα δὲ Βροῦτοσ ἔκτεινε γυμνὸν καὶ ἀφύλακτον, αὐτὸ τοῦτο δεινότητοσ ἄκρασ καὶ στρατηγίασ ἦν ἔργον, ἄνδρα τοσαύτην περιβεβλημένον δύναμιν ἀφύλακτον λαβεῖν καὶ γυμνόν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Dion and Brutus, chapter 4 3:1)
  • εἰ δέ που παρατύχοι τινὶ καιρὸσ καὶ μάθοι τὸν ἐχθρὸν ἀφύλακτον, ἥδιον ἐτιμωρεῖτο, ὅτι πιστεύσαντι ἐπέθετο μᾶλλον ἢ φυλαττομένῳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 326)
  • καθάπερ γὰρ ἐν πολιορκίᾳ οὐκ ἐπὶ τὰ ὑψηλὰ καὶ ἀπόκρημνα καὶ ἀσφαλῆ τοῦ τείχουσ προσίασιν οἱ πολέμιοι, ἀλλ’ ᾗ ἂν ἀφύλακτόν τι μέροσ ἢ σαθρὸν αἴσθωνται ἢ ταπεινόν, ἐπὶ τοῦτο πάσῃ] δυνάμει χωροῦσιν ὡσ ῥᾷστα παρεισδῦναι καὶ ἑλεῖν δυνάμενοι, οὕτω καὶ οἱ διαβάλλοντεσ ὃ τι ἂν ἀσθενὲσ ἴδωσι τῆσ ψυχῆσ καὶ ὑπόσαθρον καὶ εὐεπίβατον, τούτῳ προσβάλλουσι καὶ προσάγουσι τὰσ μηχανάσ, καὶ τέλοσ ἐκπολιορκοῦσι μηδενὸσ ἀντιταττομένου μηδὲ τὴν ἔφοδον αἰσθομένου. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 19:2)

Synonyms

  1. unguarded

  2. unguarded

  3. not to be guarded against

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

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