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ἀπαγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπαγής ἀπαγές

Structure: ἀπαγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ph/gnumi

Sense

  1. not firm or stiff

Examples

  • φαῦλαι δὲ τῶν μεγάλων, ὅσαι τὰ μέλη ἀπαγεῖσ καὶ ἀσύμμετροι· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 4 3:2)
  • ποῖ τοῦτον ἀπάγεισ, ὦ Ἀργειφόντα, χειραγωγῶν; (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 32:1)
  • "ὅτι δεύτερον ἤδη τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ περιπεσὼν, οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπωσ βίᾳ σαυτὸν ἀπάγεισ καὶ ἀποστρέφεισ, οὐ δικαίωσ χρεωκοπῶν, εἴ γε δεῖ τὸ φαινόμενον εἰπεῖν, ἱερὸν ὄντα τὸν λόγον; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 19 1:1)
  • ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃσ εἰσ τὴν κατασκευὴν τῆσ διαφορᾶσ καὶ εἴπῃσ, ῥᾴδιον γάρ ἐστι βοῶν καὶ ὀί̈ων καὶ πάσησ ἀγέλησ ἄρξαι μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρώπου, τότε λέγω ὅτι εἰσ ἐννοήματα ἀφελέστερα ἀπάγεισ τὸν λόγον· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 3:1)
  • σὺ δ’ οὐ σοφόσ, ὃσ τὸν Ἔρωτα ἀλλοτρίαν σπείρων λωποδύτην ἀπάγεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 82 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. not firm or stiff

Similar forms

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

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