Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄλαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλαλος ἄλαλη ἄλαλον

Structure: ἀλαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. speechless

Examples

  • ἀλαλαὶ ἰὴ παιήων· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, lyric3)
  • "ἑορτὰσ δὲ καὶ θυσίασ, ὥσπερ ἡμέρασ ἀποφράδασ καὶ σκυθρωπάσ, ἐν αἷσ ὠμοφαγίαι καὶ διασπασμοὶ νηστεῖαί τε καὶ κοπετοί, πολλαχοῦ δὲ πάλιν αἰσχρολογίαι πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ μανίαι τ’ ἀλαλαὶ τ’ ὀρινόμεναι ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ, θεῶν μὲν οὐδενὶ δαιμόνων δὲ φαύλων ἀποτροπῆσ ἕνεκα φήσαιμ’ ἂν τελεῖσθαι μειλίχια καὶ παραμύθια. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 142)
  • "μανίαι τ’ ἀλαλαὶ τ’ ὀρινομένων ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ κατὰ Πίνδαρον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 13:7)

Synonyms

  1. speechless

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

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