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ἀμαθής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμαθής ἀμαθές

Structure: ἀμαθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: manqa/nw

Sense

  1. unlearned, ignorant, stupid, boorish, stupid, with too little learning, through ignorance
  2. without knowledge of
  3. not heard of, unknown, an unforeseen course

Examples

  • δόξει τισ ἀμαθεῖ σοφὰ λέγων οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖν. (Euripides, episode 3:6)
  • εἰ μὲν ἀμαθεῖ καὶ πονηρῷ καὶ ἀγνώμονι, οὐδὲν διαφέρεισ τοῦ λέγοντοσ, λάθε καὶ πυρέττων, λάθε φρενιτίζων, μὴ γνῷ σε ὁ ἰατρόσ· (Plutarch, An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum, section 2 3:2)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν τῶν ὀλίγων καὶ εὐπαιδεύτων στοχαζόμενοσ λόγοσ οὐκ ἔσται τῷ φαύλῳ καὶ ἀμαθεῖ πλήθει πιθανόσ, ὁ δὲ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ καὶ ἰδιώταισ ἀρέσκειν ἀξιῶν καταφρονηθήσεται πρὸσ τῶν χαριεστέρων, ὁ δ’ ἀμφότερα τἀκροατήρια πείθειν ζητῶν ἧττον ἀποτεύξεται τοῦ τέλουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 15 1:5)
  • καὶ ἐλέχθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν ἡγουμένων τοῦ συνεδρίου λόγοι παντοδαποὶ καὶ πλεῖστον ἀλλήλων διάφοροι, μετριώτατοι δὲ καὶ πρεπωδέστατοι ταῖσ παρούσαισ τύχαισ, οὓσ οἱ πρεσβύτατοι αὐτῶν ἔλεξαν διδάσκοντεσ, ὡσ οὐδεμᾷ κακίᾳ πεποίηται τὴν ἀπόστασιν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ὁ δῆμοσ, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀναγκαίων συμφορῶν βιασθείσ, τὰ δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν συμβούλων ἐξηπατημένοσ, ὀργῇ δὲ μᾶλλον ἢ λογισμῷ τὰ συμφέροντα κρίνων, οἱᾶ ἐν ἀμαθεῖ πλήθει γίγνεσθαι φιλεῖ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 47 3:2)
  • μᾶλλον δ’ ἴσωσ οὐχ Ἡρακλεῖ προσέοικεν ὑμῶν ὁ δῆμοσ, ἀλλὰ Κενταύρῳ τινὶ ἢ Κύκλωπι πεπωκότι καὶ ἐρῶντι, τὸ μὲν σῶμα ἰσχυρῷ καὶ μεγάλῳ, τὴν δὲ διάνοιαν ἀμαθεῖ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 126:3)

Synonyms

  1. without knowledge of

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

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