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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

  • σύννομον γὰρ ἡ φιλία ζῷον οὐκ ἀγελαῖόν ἐστιν οὐδὲ κολοιῶδεσ, καὶ τὸ ἄλλον αὑτὸν ἡγεῖσθαι τὸν φίλον καὶ προσαγορεύειν ἑταῖρον ἕτερον οὐδέν ἐστιν ἢ μέτρῳ φιλίασ τῇ δυάδι χρωμένων. (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 2 6:2)
  • Ἀριστοτέλησ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύων ἀγελαῖον καὶ ἐκτοπιστικὸν εἶναι τὴν θυννίδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 67 1:2)
  • "γὰρ τὰ θρέμματα λόγου μὲν οὐ συνίησι διάνοιαν ἔχοντοσ, σιγμοῖσ δὲ καὶ ποππυσμοῖσ ἀμελέσιν ἢ σύριγξι καὶ στρόμβοισ ἐγείρουσι καὶ κατευνάζουσι πάλιν οἱ νέμοντεσ, οὕτωσ, ὅσον ἔνεστι τῇ ψυχῇ φορβαδικὸν καὶ ἀγελαῖον καὶ ἀξύνετον λόγου καὶ ἀνήκοον, μέλεσι καὶ ῥυθμοῖσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 13:10)
  • καὶ μὴν τό γε ζῷον, ὅσον ἥμερον καὶ ἀγελαῖον, σχεδὸν πλὴν γενοῖν δυοῖν πᾶν ἤδη κατακεκερμάτισται. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 55:1)

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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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