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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

  • τίνοσ δ’ ἕκατι τάσδ’ ἐπ’ ἀγραύλουσ πύλασ προσῆλθον; (Euripides, episode 4:3)
  • καὶ βοῦσ ἀγραύλουσ διζήμενοσ ἐνθάδ’ ἱκάνεισ; (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 27:5)
  • πολλοὺσ δ’ ἀγραύλουσ ἀκαχήσεισ μηλοβοτῆρασ οὔρεοσ ἐν βήσσῃσ, ὁπότ’ ἄν κρειῶν ἐρατίζων ἀντᾷσ βουκολίοισι καὶ εἰροπόκοισ ὀίεσσιν. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 29:3)
  • ταῦτ’ ἔχε, Μαιάδοσ υἱέ, καὶ ἀγραύλουσ ἕλικασ βοῦσ ἵππουσ τ’ ἀμφιπόλευε καὶ ἡμιόνουσ ταλαεργούσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 57:9)
  • μετὰ δὲ τοὺσ ὑλοβίουσ δευτερεύειν κατὰ τιμὴν τοὺσ ἰατρικοὺσ καὶ ὡσ περὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον φιλοσόφουσ, λιτοὺσ μὲν μὴ ἀγραύλουσ δέ, ὀρύζῃ καὶ ἀλφίτοισ τρεφομένουσ, ἃ παρέχειν αὐτοῖσ πάντα τὸν αἰτηθέντα καὶ ὑποδεξάμενον ξενίᾳ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 120:3)

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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