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ἄπαυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπαυστος ἄπαυστη ἄπαυστον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + παυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pau/omai

Sense

  1. unceasing, never-ending
  2. not to be stopped or assuaged, insatiable
  3. never ceasing from

Examples

  • δείξαντα δεισιδαιμονίαν, διαφορᾶσ ἀπαύστου πρόφασιν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 72 6:1)
  • δι’ αἰῶνοσ κρέων ἀπαύστου Ζεὺσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 41)
  • ἡ δ’ ἐκ μέσου πρὸσ τὸν ἔσχατον οὐρανὸν πάντῃ διαπλακεῖσα κύκλῳ τε αὐτὸν ἔξωθεν περικαλύψασα, αὐτὴ ἐν αὑτῇ στρεφομένη, θείαν ἀρχὴν ἤρξατο ἀπαύστου καὶ ἔμφρονοσ βίου πρὸσ τὸν σύμπαντα χρόνον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 116:1)
  • οἱ πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ πίνοντεσ, ὁπότε ἐκ καύματόσ τε καὶ δίψουσ ὕδατι ἀθρόῳ ἐπιτύχοιεν, πρὸσ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἀπαύστου ποτοῦ ἀπώλλυντο. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 25 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. unceasing

Related

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

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