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ἄμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμετρος

Structure: ἀμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. without measure, immense, excessive, boundless
  2. immoderate

Examples

  • "τούτῳ δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τούτων τὰ τῆσ δόξησ ηὐξάνετο, παρὰ γοῦν τοῖσ ἰδιώταισ, καὶ περίβλεπτοσ ἦν ἐπὶ τῇ ἀπονοίᾳ, μέχρι δὴ ὁ τὴν πόλιν ἐπιτετραμμένοσ ἀνήρ σοφὸσ ἀπέπεμψεν αὐτὸν ἀμέτρωσ ἐντρυφῶντα τῷ πράγματι, εἰπὼν μὴ δεῖσθαι τὴν πόλιν τοιούτου φιλοσόφου. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:42)
  • καί, ὃ δὴ πάντων ἐστὶ χαλεπώτατον, ἂν οἰκέτασ ἢ θεραπαινίδασ κολάζωσιν ἀμέτρωσ καὶ ἀδίκωσ, ἐνίστασθαι καὶ κωλύειν αὐτάσ, ὑφ’ ἑαυτῶν δ’ ὠμῶσ κολαζομένασ καὶ πικρῶσ περιορᾶν ἐν πάθεσι καὶ τύχαισ ῥᾳστώνησ καὶ φιλανθρωπίασ δεομέναισ; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 4 9:1)
  • ὅθεν οὐκ εἶπεν ὡσ ἄρα τὸν πολύφρονα ὁ οἶνοσ ποιεῖ ᾆσαι, ἀλλὰ μάλ’ ἀεῖσαι, τουτέστιν ἀμέτρωσ καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖον ὥστε προσοχλεῖν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 8 1:3)
  • "ταῦτα πάντα εἶχεν ἀλόγωσ καὶ ἀμέτρωσ· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 9 9:1)
  • εἰ δὲ τισ ἀμέτρωσ διαθείη τὴν σχηματοποιίαν καὶ ταῖσ ᾠδαῖσ ἐπιτυγχάνων μηδὲν λέγοι κατὰ τὴν ὄρχησιν, οὗτοσ δ’ ἦν ἀδόκιμοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 25 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. without measure

  2. immoderate

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

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