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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

  • ἢν δὲ ποιητικὸσ ᾖ καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ μέγα φρονῇ, Μὰ Δί’ ἐχλεύασέ σου Φιλόξενοσ τὰ ἔπη καὶ διέσυρε καὶ ἄμετρα εἶπεν αὐτὰ καὶ κακοσύνθετα. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 14:4)
  • τὰ μέτρια ὠφελεῖ ἢ τὰ ἄμετρα τῶν προσφερομένων; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 48:2)
  • ἄμετρα γὰρ δόξαισ φορεῖται τοπαζόμενα. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 22:3)
  • μία, καὶ ἕνα λόγον ἔχουσα ἀρχαῖον, ὅτι τῷ μὲν ὁμοίῳ τὸ ὅμοιον ὄντι μετρίῳ φίλον ἂν εἰή, τὰ δ’ ἄμετρα οὔτε ἀλλήλοισ οὔτε τοῖσ ἐμμέτροισ. (Plato, Laws, book 4 75:2)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ οὐκ εἰσ τὰ ἄμετρα καυχησόμεθα, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ μέτρον τοῦ κανόνοσ οὗ ἐμέρισεν ἡμῖν ὁ θεὸσ μέτρου, ἐφικέσθαι ἄχρι καὶ ὑμῶν· (PROS KORINQIOUS B, chapter 7 75:1)

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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