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ἄμαχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμαχος

Structure: ἀμαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xh

Sense

  1. without battle
  2. with whom no one fights, unconquered, unconquerable, invincible, impregnable, irresistible
  3. not having fought, taking no part in the battle
  4. disinclined to fight, peaceful, not contentious

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

  • ἄλλωσ γὰρ ἂν ἄμαχοι γυναῖκεσ καὶ μιαραὶ κεκλῄμεθ’ ἄν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 6:30)
  • εἰσὶν ἡμῖν τῶν κεκλημένων δύο ἐπὶ δεῖπνον ἄμαχοι, Φιλοκράτησ καὶ Φιλοκράτησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 14 2:3)
  • οἱ δὲ ἐπιφανέντεσ ἐκ τόπων ὀχυρῶν καὶ τὰ θηρία βάλλοντεσ ἠνάγκασαν ἀποστρέφεσθαι καὶ φυγῇ χωροῦντα διὰ τῶν συμμάχων ὀπίσω ταραχὴν ἀπεργάσασθαι καὶ σύγχυσιν, ἣ τὸ νίκημα παρέδωκε τοῖσ Ῥωμαίοισ, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὸ κράτοσ τῆσ ἡγεμονίασ, καὶ γάρ φρόνημα καὶ δύναμιν καὶ δόξαν ὡσ ἄμαχοι προσλαβόντεσ ἐκ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ ἐκείνησ καὶ τῶν ἀγώνων Ἰταλίαν μὲν εὐθύσ, ὀλίγῳ δὲ ὕστερον Σικελίαν κατέσχον. (Plutarch, chapter 25 5:1)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ Μαραθῶνι τοσοῦτον μόνον ἐπέδειξαν τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν, ὅτι κατὰ γῆν οἱο͂́ν τε ἀμύνασθαι τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ ὀλίγοισ πολλούσ, ναυσὶ δὲ ἔτι ἦν ἄδηλον καὶ δόξαν εἶχον Πέρσαι ἄμαχοι εἶναι κατὰ θάλατταν καὶ πλήθει καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ τέχνῃ καὶ ῥώμῃ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 46:3)
  • ἔπειτα δέον αὐτοὺσ σὺν εὐλαβείᾳ καὶ λογισμῷ σώφρονι πράττειν ἕκαστα, ἐνθυμουμένουσ, πρὸσ οἱούσ ἄνδρασ ὁ κίνδυνοσ ἔσται, θρασέωσ καὶ ἀπερισκέπτωσ ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα χωροῦσιν, ὡσ ἄμαχοί τινεσ καὶ ὡσ ἡμῶν καταπεπληγότων αὐτούσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 9 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. without battle

  2. with whom no one fights

  3. not having fought

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

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