Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀκρατής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκρατής ἀκρατές

Structure: ἀκρατη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a_priv, kra/tos

Sense

  1. powerless, impotent
  2. not having power or command over, intemperate in the use of
  3. without command over, incontinent
  4. immoderate

Examples

  • νεανίασ γὰρ καὶ δυνατὸσ ἀντέχειν πρὸσ τὴν φοράν, ἡ δὲ ὑπ̓ ἀηθείασ ἐπιβᾶσα ὀχήματοσ παραδόξου καὶ ἀπιδοῦσα ἐσ βάθοσ ἀχανέσ, ἐκπλαγεῖσα καὶ τῷ θάλπει ἅμα συσχεθεῖσα καὶ ἰλιγγιάσασα πρὸσ τὸ σφοδρὸν τῆσ πτήσεωσ ἀκρατὴσ ἐγένετο τῶν κεράτων τοῦ κριοῦ, ὧν τέωσ ἐπείληπτο, καὶ κατέπεσεν ἐσ τὸ πέλαγοσ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, poseidon and nereides, chapter 2 1:4)
  • "καί πωσ ἔστιν δὲ ἀκρατὴσ γέλωτοσ ὁ μὲν τὴν φωνὴν ἐντρέψασ ἐσ μέλοσ, ὡσ ᾤετο, θρῆνόν τινα ἐπηύλει τῷ Πυθαγόρᾳ, ὁ δέ, τοῦτο δὴ τὸ τοῦ λόγου, ὄνον κιθαρίζειν πειρώμενον ὁρῶν ἀνεκάγχασε μάλα ἡδύ, ὁ ποιητὴσ οὗτοσ ὁ ἐμόσ· (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 5:13)
  • ἐκεῖ μὲν γὰρ ἀκρατὴσ ἡ ἐλευθερία καὶ νόμοσ εἷσ, τὸ δόξαν τῷ ποιητῇ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 82)
  • Καλλίστρατοσ δέ, φησίν, ὁ Καλλικράτουσ δημαγωγὸσ καὶ αὐτὸσ πρὸσ μὲν τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ἦν ἀκρατήσ, τῶν δὲ πολιτικῶν πραγμάτων ἦν ἐπιμελήσ περὶ δὲ τῶν Ταραντίνων ἱστορῶν ἐν τῇ δευτέρα καὶ πεντηκοστῇ τῶν ἱστοριῶν γράφει οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 61 2:2)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ὁ σοφὸσ ἐγκρατὴσ ἀλλὰ σώφρων, οὔθ’ ὁ ἀμαθὴσ ἀκρατὴσ ἀλλ’ ἀκόλαστοσ ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἥδεται τοῖσ καλοῖσ ὁ δ’ οὐκ ἄχθεται τοῖσ αἰσχροῖσ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 6 33:1)

Synonyms

  1. immoderate

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

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