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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

  • "καθάπερ δὲ λόγῳ ποίησισ ἡδύσματα μέλη καὶ μέτρα καὶ ῥυθμοὺσ ἐφαρμόσασα καὶ τὸ παιδεῦον αὐτοῦ κινητικώτερον ἐποίησε καὶ τὸ βλάπτον ἀφυλακτότερον οὕτωσ ἡ φύσισ γυναικὶ περιθεῖσα χάριν ὄψεωσ καὶ φωνῆσ πιθανότητα καὶ μορφῆσ ἐπαγωγὸν εἶδοσ, τῇ μὲν ἀκολάστῳ πρὸσ ἡδονὴν καὶ ἀπάτην τῇ δὲ σώφρονι πρὸσ εὔνοιαν ἀνδρὸσ καὶ φιλίαν μεγάλα συνήργησεν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 2320)
  • Ἀχαιοὶ δέ, ἐχόντων ἀφυλακτότερον ὑπὸ φρονήματοσ τῶν Ῥωμαίων, ἐπιτίθενται τοῖσ ἐπὶ φυλακῆσ αὐτοῖσ τῆσ πρώτησ, καὶ τοὺσ μὲν φονεύουσι, πλείονασ δὲ ἔτι ἐσ τὸ στρατόπεδον κατεῖρξαν, καὶ ἀσπίδασ ὅσον τε πεντακοσίασ εἷλον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 16 2:2)

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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