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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

  • ἐκεῖνοσ ὡσ ἀπόμισθοσ γίγνεται παρὰ τοῦ Τιμοθέου τότε, ἀπ’ Ἀμφιπόλεωσ ἀναχωρῶν, διαβὰσ εἰσ τὴν Ἀσίαν, διὰ τὴν σύλληψιν τὴν Ἀρταβάζῳ συμβᾶσαν τόθ’ ὑπ’ Αὐτοφραδάτου μισθοῖ τὸ στράτευμα καὶ αὑτὸν τοῖσ Ἀρταβάζου κηδεσταῖσ, λαβὼν δὲ πίστεισ καὶ δούσ, ὀλιγωρήσασ τῶν ὁρ́κων καὶ παραβὰσ αὐτούσ, ἀφυλάκτων ὄντων ὡσ ἂν πρὸσ φίλον τῶν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ, καταλαμβάνει Σκῆψιν καὶ Κεβρῆνα καὶ Ἴλιον αὐτῶν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 214:1)
  • ἔσ τε τὰσ κορυφὰσ τῶν ὀρῶν Αἰτωλοὺσ ἀνέπεμψε, μή τισ λάθοι κατὰ τὴν λεγομένην ἀτραπὸν περιελθών, ᾗ δὴ καὶ Λακεδαιμονίοισ τοῖσ ἀμφὶ Λεωνίδαν Ξέρξησ ἐπέθετο, ἀφυλάκτων τότε τῶν ὀρῶν ὄντων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4 2:2)
  • εἰσ ἀνόπλουσ γὰρ καὶ πυκνοὺσ πολλῶν καὶ παντοίων βελῶν φερομένων οὐδεὶσ ἡμάρτανεν, ἑτοίμων καὶ ἀφυλάκτων τῶν σκοπῶν κειμένων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 42 2:1)

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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