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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

  • τοῖσ γα μὰν ὑπωδέλοισ παιδάρια βαλλίζοντ’, ἀγαστὸν χρῆμ’, ἐνῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 63 3:5)
  • Ἰσίδαν δὲ δοκῶ, τὸν Φοιβίδου υἱόν, οὐ τοῖσ πολίταισ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ θέαμα φανῆναι καινὸν καὶ ἀγαστόν. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 34 6:1)
  • οὕτω δὲ καὶ ἔστιν ὁ μετεωρίζων ἑαυτὸν ἵπποσ σφόδρα ἢ καλὸν ἢ δεινὸν ἢ ἀγαστὸν ἢ θαυμαστόν, ὡσ πάντων τῶν ὁρώντων καὶ νέων καὶ γεραιτέρων τὰ ὄμματα κατέχειν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 11 10:1)
  • ἔστιν οὖν οὐ πᾶν τὸ ταχὺ ἀλλὰ τὶ αὐτοῦ ἀγαστόν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 175:3)
  • καὶ τοῦτο μὲν οὐκ ἀγνοῶ, ὅτι ταῦτα ἀποφθέγματα οὐκ ἀξιόλογα, ἐκεῖνο δὲ κρίνω τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἀγαστόν, τὸ τοῦ θανάτου παρεστηκότοσ μήτε τὸ φρόνιμον μήτε τὸ παιγνιῶδεσ ἀπολιπεῖν ἐκ τῆσ ψυχῆσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 64:7)

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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