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ἄγαλμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγαλμα

Structure: ἀγαλματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)ga/llw

Sense

  1. a glory, delight, honour, mere ornaments
  2. a pleasing gift
  3. a statue in honour of a god, an image, any statue, a portrait, picture

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν μῦθον ἤκουσασ, ὃν λέγουσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι περὶ αὐτῆσ, ὡσ ἐρασθείη τισ τοῦ ἀγάλματοσ καὶ λαθὼν ὑπολειφθεὶσ ἐν ἱερῷ συγγένοιτο, ὡσ δυνατὸν ἀγάλματι. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 4:5)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ εἰ μέν τινα ἄμορφον οὖσαν ἔφην τῷ ἐν Κνίδῳ ἀγάλματι ὁμοίαν, γόησ ἂν καὶ τοῦ Κυναίθου κολακικώτεροσ ὄντωσ νομιζοίμην εἰ δὲ τοιαύτην ὑπάρχουσαν οἱάν πάντεσ ἴσασιν, οὐ πάνυ ἐκ πολλοῦ διαστήματοσ ἦν τὸ τόλμημα. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 22:2)
  • ἴτωσαν ἐσ σὴν σὺν θεᾶσ ἀγάλματι γαῖαν, καθιδρύσαιντό τ’ εὐτυχῶσ βρέτασ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 11:4)
  • ἔργον δὲ πρῶτον ἦν αὐτοῖσ καὶ ἀπόλαυσμα τῆσ ἐλευθερίασ ἐκείνην ἀσπάσασθαι μετὰ χαρᾶσ καὶ δακρύων, ὥσπερ ἀγάλματι θεοῦ προσπίπτοντασ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 11:1)
  • ἔργον δὲ πρῶτον ἦν αὐτοῖσ καὶ ἀπόλαυσμα τῆσ ἐλευθερίασ ἐκείνην ἀσπάσασθαι μετὰ χαρᾶσ καὶ δακρύων, ὥσπερ ἀγάλματι θεοῦ προσπίπτοντασ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 32:1)

Synonyms

  1. a glory

  2. a pleasing gift

Related

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

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