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ἀγαστός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγαστός

Structure: ἀγαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)gato/s poet. for a)gasto/s, as qaumato/s for qaumasto/s, Hhymn.; a)/gamai의 분사형

Sense

  1. deserving admiration, admirable

Examples

  • τοῦ δ’, εἰ καὶ μικρὰ πρὸσ τὴν ἱκετείαν ἐνέδωκεν, ἀγαστὴ μὲν ἡ παρασκευὴ τοῦ φαρμάκου καὶ τήρησισ, ἀγαστὴ δ’ ἡ χρῆσισ, ὅτι τοῦ θεοῦ μὴ παρασχόντοσ αὐτῷ τὴν ἀσυλίαν, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ μείζονα βωμὸν καταφυγών, ἐκ τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τῶν δορυφόρων λαβὼν ἑαυτὸν ᾤχετο, τῆσ Ἀντιπάτρου καταγελάσασ ὠμότητοσ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Demosthenes with Cicero, chapter 5 1:2)
  • θάνον δ’ ὑπὲρ ἀνέροσ ἐσθλοῦ, Ζήνωνοσ, τὸν μοῦνον ἐνὶ στέρνοισιν ἐδέγμην, ὃν φωτὸσ γλυκερῶν τε τέκνων προὔκριν’ ἐμὸν ἦτορ, οὔνομα Καλλικράτεια, βροτοῖσ πάντεσσιν ἀγαστή. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 6912)

Synonyms

  1. deserving admiration

Related

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

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