Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ἀπάνθρωπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπάνθρωπος ἀπάνθρωπη ἀπάνθρωπον

Structure: ἀπανθρωπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. far from man
  2. desert, desolate
  3. inhuman

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Μάριοσ μὲν οὖν ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ χαλεπὸσ ὢν ἐπέτεινεν, οὐ μετέβαλε τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ τὴν φύσιν Σύλλασ δὲ μετρίωσ τὰ πρῶτα καὶ πολιτικῶσ ὁμιλήσασ τῇ τύχῃ καὶ δόξαν ἀριστοκρατικοῦ καὶ δημωφελοῦσ ἡγεμόνοσ παρασχών, ἔτι δὲ καὶ φιλόγελωσ ἐκ νέου γενόμενοσ καὶ πρὸσ οἶκτον ὑγρόσ, ὥστε ῥᾳδίωσ ἐπιδακρύειν, εἰκότωσ προσετρίψατο ταῖσ μεγάλαισ ἐξουσίαισ διαβολὴν ὡσ τὰ ἤθη μένειν οὐκ ἐώσαισ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τρόπων, ἀλλ’ ἔμπληκτα καὶ χαῦνα καὶ ἀπάνθρωπα ποιούσαισ. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 30 4:2)
  • ἐπιβαλλόμενοσ δὲ περὶ τοῦ δικαίου ποιεῖσθαι λόγουσ, καὶ τὰ μὲν τοῖσ δανειστικοῖσ ἐγκαλῶν ὡσ ὠμὰ καὶ ἀπάνθρωπα διαπεπραγμένοισ, τὰ δὲ τῶν πενήτων καθαπτόμενοσ ὡσ οὐ δικαίωσ ἀξιούντων βίᾳ μᾶλλον ἀφεῖσθαι τῶν ὀφειλημάτων ἢ χάριτι, καὶ ὡσ τὴν βουλὴν οὐκ ὀρθῶσ δἰ ὀργῆσ ἐχόντων ἐπὶ τῷ μηθενὸσ τῶν μετρίων παρ’ αὐτῆσ τυγχάνειν, μᾶλλον ἢ οὐχὶ τοὺσ αἰτίουσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 81 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. far from man

  2. desert

  3. inhuman

Related

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

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