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ἀμνηστίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμνηστίᾱ ἀμνηστίᾱς

Structure: ἀμνηστι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from a)mnhste/w

Sense

  1. forgetfulness, (and especially) an amnesty

Declension

First 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

  • τί οὖν κωλύει καὶ ἡμᾶσ ἐν διαφορᾷ ποτε πρὸσ οἰκείουσ καὶ συγγενεῖσ γενομένουσ ἐν ἀμνηστίᾳ τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην τίθεσθαι καὶ μίαν τῶν ἀποφράδων νομίζειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ πολλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἐν αἷσ συνετράφημεν καὶ συνεβιώσαμεν ἡμερῶν διὰ μίαν ἐπιλανθάνεσθαι; (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 18 5:4)
  • τί οὖν κωλύει καὶ ἡμᾶσ διαφορᾶσ ποτε πρὸσ οἰκείουσ καὶ συγγενεῖσ γενομένησ ἐν ἀμνηστίᾳ τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην τίθεσθαι καὶ μίαν τῶν ἀποφράδων νομίζειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ πολλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἐν αἷσ συνετράφημεν καὶ συνεβιώσαμεν ἡμερῶν διὰ μίαν ἐπιλανθάνεσθαι; (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 18 13:2)
  • τὴν δὲ τράπεζαν ἐν τοῖσ μάλιστα φιλοποιὸν ἡγεῖτο καὶ πολλὴ μὲν εὐφημία τῶν καλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν πολιτῶν ἐπεισήγετο, πολλὴ δ’ ἦν ἀμνηστία τῶν ἀχρήστων καὶ πονηρῶν, μήτε ψόγῳ μήτ’ ἐπαίνῳ πάροδον ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν τοῦ Κάτωνοσ εἰσ τὸ συμπόσιον διδόντοσ. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 25 3:1)
  • τὰ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῶν ἱερῶν συνομολογηθέντα τοῖσ πατρικίοισ πρὸσ τοὺσ δημοτικοὺσ ἐπ’ ἀδείᾳ τε πάντων γενέσθαι καὶ ἀμνηστίᾳ τῶν προτέρων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 49 6:1)
  • ὧν δὲ οὔτε ποιητήσ πω δόξαν ἀξίαν ἐπ’ ἀξίοισ λαβὼν ἔχει ἔτι τέ ἐστιν ἐν ἀμνηστίᾳ, τούτων πέρι μοι δοκεῖ χρῆναι ἐπιμνησθῆναι ἐπαινοῦντά τε καὶ προμνώμενον ἄλλοισ ἐσ ᾠδάσ τε καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ποίησιν αὐτὰ θεῖναι πρεπόντωσ τῶν πραξάντων. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 36:2)

Synonyms

  1. forgetfulness

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