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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

  • πολλῷ δὲ τούτων ἐκεῖνο ἀλογώτερον τοὺσ γὰρ αὐτοὺσ τούτουσ εὑρ́ισκον ἐπιτηρῶν ἐναντιώτατα τοῖσ αὑτῶν λόγοισ ἐπιτηδεύοντασ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 5:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἀλογώτερον ἢ τὸ γέλωτοσ μὲν ὑπερβολὰσ καὶ περιχαρείασ ἀφαιρεῖν, τοῖσ δὲ κλαυθμῶν καὶ ὀδυρμῶν ῥεύμασιν ἐκ μιᾶσ πηγῆσ φερομένων εἰσ ἅπαν ἐφιέναι; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 4 6:1)
  • καί ποτε τὴν δημαρχίαν ἀπολιπὼν ἄφνω πρὸσ Πομπήϊον ἐξέπλευσεν εἰσ Συρίαν, εἶτ’ ἐκεῖθεν ἐπανῆλθεν ἀλογώτερον. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 26 7:2)
  • "καίτοι τί γένοιτ’ ἂν ἀλογώτερον, ἢ δυεῖν ὄντοιν, ἐξ ὧν ὁ ἄνθρωποσ πέφυκε, σώματοσ καὶ ψυχῆσ, ψυχῆσ δὲ τάξιν ἡγεμονικωτέραν ἐχούσησ, σώματοσ μὲν ἴδιόν τι καὶ κατὰ φύσιν καὶ οἰκεῖον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι, ψυχῆσ δὲ μηδέν, ἀλλὰ τῷ σώματι καθῆσθαι προσβλέπουσαν αὐτὴν καὶ τοῖσ μὲν τοῦ σώματοσ πάθεσιν ἐπιμειδιῶσαν καὶ συνηδομένην καὶ συγχαίρουσαν, αὐτὴν δ’ ἀκίνητον ἐξ ἀρχῆσ καὶ ἀπαθῆ καὶ μηδὲν αἱρετὸν ἔχουσαν μηδ’ ὀρεκτὸν ὅλωσ μηδὲ χαρτόν; (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 144)
  • καίτοι, ὡσ ἐγᾦμαι, οὐδενὸσ ὅτου οὐχὶ ἀλογώτερον τοῦτ’ ἂν φανείη. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 481:3)

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.

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