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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

  • εἰ δὲ τῶν θεῶν κρατεῖν βούλῃ, τὸ χρῄζειν ἀμαθέσ ἐστί σου τόδε. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:19)
  • ἀμαθέσ γ’ εἶ καὶ κατάρατον. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode, dactyls2)
  • σὺ μήτε σὴν παῖδ’ ἔξαγ’ ὄψιν εἰσ ἐμήν, μήτ’ εἰσ ὄνειδοσ ἀμαθὲσ ἔλθωμεν, γύναι· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 3:7)
  • ἀμαθὲσ καὶ τὸ βούλεσθαι τάδε. (Euripides, episode, iambic 20:9)
  • φοβείσθω δὲ μηδεὶσ ὑμῶν μήτε τὸ πλῆθοσ τῶν πολεμίων μήτε τὸ μέγεθοσ, μηδ’ εἰσ ταῦτά τισ πλεονεκτήματα αὐτῶν ὁρῶν ἀθυμότεροσ πρὸσ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἔστω, ἀλλ’ ἐνθυμείσθω πρῶτον μέν, ὅτι κρεῖττόν ἐστιν ἔλαττον στράτευμα ἐπιστάμενον, ἃ δεῖ πράττειν, ἢ πολὺ ἀμαθέσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 14, chapter 9 5:2)

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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