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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

  • ταῦθ’ ὁ Σερτώριοσ ἀκούσασ ἔρωτα θαυμαστὸν ἔσχεν οἰκῆσαι τὰσ νήσουσ καὶ ζῆν ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ, τυραννίδοσ ἀπαλλαγεὶσ καὶ πολέμων ἀπαύστων. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 9 1:1)
  • "οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ λέγουσιν αὑτοῖσ κακῶν ἀπαύστων καὶ ἀορίστων λυθεῖσαν ὑποψίαν ἀγαθὸν βεβαιότατον καὶ ἣδιστον ἀπολιπεῖν τὴν ἐπίνοιαν τοῦ λελύσθαι· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 301)
  • τότε δὲ διὰ πολλοῦ χειμῶνοσ ἤδη καὶ νιφετῶν ἀπαύστων ἐπειγόμενοσ ὀκτακισχιλίουσ ἀπέβαλε καθ’ ὁδόν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 51 1:1)
  • ἐξ ὧν οὐκ ἄδηλον, ὡσ μεγάλων καὶ ἀπαύστων κακῶν ἀναπλησθήσεται τὰ περὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ γένοσ, ἐξὸν ἀποκρουσάμενον τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, εἰσ ἣν ἐκείνη παρακαλεῖ, θέσθαι τὸν καιρὸν εὐσχημόνωσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 126:1)

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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