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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

  • περὶ ἐμοῦ τοῦτο τὸ ἔποσ, οὗ τὴν γυναῖκα ᾤχετο ἀπάγων διότι αὐτὸν ὑπεδεξάμην. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 30:8)
  • ἀληθέστερον δ’ ἴσωσ εἰπεῖν ἐστιν ὅτι τὴν πάντα ἀπεργασαμένην κακὰ μεταβολὴν ἐξήλαυνεν, ἀπάγων καὶ καθιστὰσ εἰσ τὸ οἰκεῖον σχῆμα τὴν πόλιν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi, chapter 2 3:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ τὴν φωνὴν αἰσθόμενοσ ἀνεβόησεν καὶ προσιόντοσ διαστείλασ τὴν κόμην καὶ ἀπάγων τοῦ προσώπου αὐχμηρὰν καὶ συμπεπιλημένην ἔδειξεν αὑτὸν ὅστισ ἦν, ἄμφω μὲν αὐτίκα πίπτουσιν ἰλιγγιάσαντεσ ἐπὶ τῇ ἀπροσδοκήτῳ θέᾳ. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 29:6)
  • καὶ χεῖρασ μήπω τινὸσ ἐκτετακότοσ ἐπ’ αὐτὴν ἐπιβαλὼν ἐψίλωσε τὸ πλευρὸν ἀπάγων εἰσ ἄκανθαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 533)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν ἱππεύειν ἐκ παιδὸσ ἦν αὐτῷ ῥᾴδιον εἴθιστο γὰρ εἰσ τοὐπίσω τὰσ χεῖρασ ἀπάγων καὶ τῷ νώτῳ περιπλέκων ἀνὰ κράτοσ ἐλαύνειν τὸν ἵππον. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 17 3:2)

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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