Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀόργητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀόργητος ἀόργητη ἀόργητον

Structure: ἀοργητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)rgh/

Sense

  1. incapable of anger

Examples

  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ βιβλίον χρημάτων φησὶ δεῖν καταφρονεῖν καὶ δόξησ καὶ μόνον τὸ καλὸν ἀγαθὸν οἰέσθαι καὶ ἀόργητον εἶναι καὶ τῶν λαμπρῶν τούτων ὑπερορᾶν καὶ ἐξ ἰσοτιμίασ αὐτοῖσ διαλέγεσθαι, καλά,^ ὦ θεοί, καὶ σοφὰ καὶ θαυμάσια λέγον ^ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 34:2)
  • τό γε μὴν ἀόργητον ἀνδρόσ ἐστι σοφοῦ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 14 8:1)
  • ἀτὰρ καὶ ἐν τῷ παντὶ βίῳ χρὴ ὀξυθυμίην ἀόργητον ἐμποιέειν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 144)
  • τὸ ἀνεκτικόν μου γυμνάζει, τὸ ἀόργητον, τὸ πρᾷον. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 9:6)
  • εἰ γὰρ τὸ περὶ μικρῶν ζημιωμάτων ἀφεῖναι τοὺσ πλημμελήσαντασ ἔπαινον ἤνεγκε τοῖσ ὑπεριδοῦσι, τό γε περὶ τούτων ἀόργητον, ὑπὲρ ὧν τὸ ζῆν ὑπεύθυνον τῇ κολάσει γίνεται τῶν ἠδικηκότων, θεοῦ φύσει προσετέθη. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 182:2)

Synonyms

  1. incapable of anger

Related

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

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