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ἄγραυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγραυλος

Structure: ἀγραυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)gro/s au)lh/

Sense

  1. dwelling in the field, a boor
  2. rural, rustic

Examples

  • Κέκροψ δὲ γήμασ τὴν Ἀκταίου κόρην Ἄγραυλον παῖδα μὲν ἔσχεν Ἐρυσίχθονα, ὃσ ἄτεκνοσ μετήλλαξε, θυγατέρασ δὲ Ἄγραυλον Ἕρσην Πάνδροσον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 2:1)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐπὶ τοῖσ ὄρεσιν ἄγραυλον καὶ κακόπαθον τὸν βίον εἶχεν, ἐπεὶ δὲ πλεῖον ἤδη καὶ ἀξιόμαχον ἐδόκει γεγονέναι, πόλιν ἐχυρὰν καταλαμβάνεται, ὅθεν ὁρμώμενον ἐληίζετο πᾶσαν τὴν κύκλῳ χώραν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 17 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling in the field

  2. rural

Related

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

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