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ἀγελαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγελαῖος

Structure: ἀγελαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)ge/lh

Sense

  1. belonging to a herd, feeding at large
  2. in herds or shoals, gregarious, gregarious animals
  3. of the herd or multitude, common

Examples

  • ἀγελαῖα μὲν βοσκήματ’ ἄρτι πρὸσ λέπασ μόσχων ὑπεξήκριζον, ἡνίχ’ ἥλιοσ ἀκτῖνασ ἐξίησι θερμαίνων χθόνα. (Euripides, episode, trochees 3:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν μήτε καθ’ αὑτὰ φαινόμενα μήτ’ ἐν ταῖσ ἀγέλαισ ἐκφερόμενα μᾶλλόν ἐστιν εὔπεπτα, οἱο͂ν γόγγροι καὶ καρχαρίαι καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, τὰ δὲ ἀγελαῖα γένη τῶν ἰχθύων τούτων τὴν μὲν ἐδωδὴν ἡδεῖαν ἔχει πίονα γάρ ἐστι, βαρεῖαν δὲ καὶ δυσκατέργαστον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 54 1:4)
  • τῶν τε γὰρ θηρίων τὰ μὲν ἀγελαῖα τὰ δὲ σποραδικά ἐστιν, ὁποτέρωσ συμφέρει πρὸσ τὴν τροφὴν αὐτοῖσ διὰ τὸ τὰ μὲν ζῳοφάγα τὰ δὲ καρποφάγα τὰ δὲ παμφάγα αὐτῶν εἶναι, ὥστε πρὸσ τὰσ ῥᾳστώνασ καὶ τὴν αἱρ́εσιν τὴν τούτων ἡ φύσισ τοὺσ βίουσ αὐτῶν διώρισεν, ἐπεὶ δ’ οὐ ταὐτὸ ἑκάστῳ ἡδὺ κατὰ φύσιν ἀλλὰ ἕτερα ἑτέροισ, καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν ζῳοφάγων καὶ τῶν καρποφάγων οἱ βίοι πρὸσ ἄλληλα διεστᾶσιν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 91:2)
  • τὰ πεζὰ ἡμῖν τῶν ἡμέρων, ὅσαπερ ἀγελαῖα, διῃρημένα ἐστὶ φύσει δίχα. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 50:8)

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

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