Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄλογος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλογος

Structure: ἀλογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without lo/gos
  2. unutterable
  3. without reason, irrational, brutes, animals, a horse
  4. not reckoned upon, unexpected

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἶκον δέ τισ ἰδὼν μεγέθει μέγιστον καὶ κάλλει κάλλιστον καὶ φωτὶ φαιδρότατον καὶ χρυσῷ στιλπνότατον καὶ γραφαῖσ ἀνθηρότατον οὐκ ἂν ἐπιθυμήσειε λόγουσ ἐν αὐτῷ διαθέσθαι, εἰ τύχοι περὶ τούτουσ διατρίβων, καὶ ἐνευδοκιμῆσαι καὶ ἐλλαμπρύνασθαι καὶ βοῆσ ἐμπλῆσαι καὶ ὡσ ἔνι μάλιστα καὶ αὐτὸσ μέροσ τοῦ κάλλουσ αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι, ἀλλὰ περισκοπήσασ ἀκριβῶσ καὶ θαυμάσασ μόνον ἄπεισι κωφὸν αὐτὸν καὶ ἄλογον καταλιπών, μήτε προσειπὼν μήτε προσομιλήσασ, ὥσπερ τισ ἄναυδοσ ἢ φθόνῳ σιωπᾶν ἐγνωκώσ; (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 1:2)
  • καὶ ἦσάν τινεσ οἱ μανίασ ἀρχὴν ταῦτα εἶναι νομίζοντεσ καὶ ἀπειλὴν καὶ ἀκροβολισμὸν οὐκ ἐσ μακρὰν ἐπιπεσουμένου τοῦ κακοῦ, μῖσοσ ἄλογον καὶ νόμον ἀπηνῆ καὶ βλασφημίασ προχείρουσ καὶ δικαστήριον σκυθρωπὸν καὶ βοὴν καὶ ὀργὴν καὶ ὅλωσ χολῆσ μεστὰ πάντα. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 3:6)
  • ἐπεὶ ἄλογον ἂν εἰή καὶ γελοῖον, ὥσπερ εἴ τισ τὴν ἐσθῆτα πρὸ τοῦ σώματοσ θαυμάζοι. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 11:5)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸσ ὅμοιά σοι κατηγόρει τῆσ ὀρχηστικῆσ, λέγων τοῦ αὐλοῦ καὶ τῶν συρίγγων καὶ τῶν κτύπων πάρεργόν τι τὸν ὀρχηστὴν εἶναι, μηδὲν αὐτὸν πρὸσ τὸ δρᾶμα συντελοῦντα, κινούμενον δὲ ἄλογον ἄλλωσ κίνησιν καὶ μάταιον, οὐδενὸσ αὐτῇ νοῦ προσόντοσ, τῶν δὲ ἀνθρώπων τοῖσ περὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα γοητευομένων,^· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 63:2)
  • καὶ μηδὲν ἄλλο ταύτησ ἀκριβέστερον ζητεῖν κριτήριον, τοῦτο κἀγὼ τοῖσ ἀναγινώσκουσι τὸν Λυσίαν καὶ τίσ ἡ παρ’ αὐτῷ χάρισ ἐστὶ βουλομένοισ μαθεῖν ὑποθείμην ἂν ἐπιτηδεύειν, χρόνῳ πολλῷ καὶ μακρᾷ τριβῇ καὶ ἀλόγῳ πάθει τὴν ἄλογον συνασκεῖν αἴσθησιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 11 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. without lo

  2. unutterable

Related

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION