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ἄκαιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκαιρος

Structure: ἀκαιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. ill-timed, unseasonable, inopportune
  2. importunate

Examples

  • ἐκ κόπων καὶ πότων καὶ γυμνασιων ἀκαίρων πῦρ ἔλαβεν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 232)
  • ἐκ δὲ τούτου πολλὰ καὶ τῶν ἀκαίρων ἐνίοισ ἐπῄει λέγειν, ὡσ οὐκ ἄχρηστον εἰδέναι καὶ φυλάττεσθαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 14:1)
  • οἶμαι δ’, ἔφη, καὶ οἴκοι ἡμᾶσ τούτου ἕνεκα ἀσκεῖν καὶ γαστρὸσ κρείττουσ εἶναι καὶ κερδέων ἀκαίρων, ἵν’, εἴ ποτε δέοι, δυναίμεθα αὐτοῖσ συμφόρωσ χρῆσθαι· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 51:1)
  • ὁ δὲ δῆμοσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκαίρων δημηγόρων πεισθεὶσ ἀντεῖπε, νομίζων κατὰ κράτοσ ἐκπολιορκήσειν τὸν τύραννον. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 17 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. importunate

Related

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

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