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ἀπειρόκαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπειρόκαλος ἀπειρόκαλη ἀπειρόκαλον

Structure: ἀπειροκαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kalo/n

Sense

  1. ignorant of the beautiful, without taste, tasteless, vulgar

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

  • καὶ γὰρ διανοήματοσ εὐτέλεια καὶ ῥήματοσ κενότησ καὶ σχῆμα φορτικὸν καὶ πτόησισ μετὰ χαρᾶσ ἀπειροκάλου πρὸσ ἔπαινον καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα μᾶλλον ἀκροωμένοισ ἐφ’ ἑτέρων ἢ λέγουσιν ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν καταφαίνεται. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 6 3:2)
  • τραφεὶσ γὰρ ἐν ἤθεσιν ὑπὸ τυράννῳ ταπεινοῖσ, καὶ βίου μὲν ἀνίσου καὶ καταφόβου, θεραπείασ δὲ νεοπλούτου καὶ τρυφῆσ ἀπειροκάλου καὶ διαίτησ ἐν ἡδοναῖσ καὶ πλεονεξίαισ τιθεμένησ τὸ καλὸν ἐθὰσ καὶ μεστὸσ γενόμενοσ, ὡσ πρῶτον ἐγεύσατο λόγου καὶ φιλοσοφίασ ἡγεμονικῆσ πρὸσ ἀρετήν, ἀνεφλέχθη τὴν ψυχὴν ταχύ, καὶ τῇ περὶ αὐτὸν εὐπειθείᾳ τῶν καλῶν ἀκάκωσ πάνυ καὶ νεωτερικῶσ προσδοκήσασ ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν λόγων ὅμοια πείσεσθαι Διονύσιον, ἐσπούδασε καὶ διεπράξατο ποιησάμενοσ σχολὴν αὐτὸν ἐντυχεῖν Πλάτωνι καὶ ἀκοῦσαι. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 4 3:1)
  • Τὸ μὲν γύψῳ λευκανθίζουσαν σπουδάζειν θαυμάζεσθαι τὴν οἰκίαν ἀπειροκάλου, τὸ δὲ ἦθοσ χρηστότητι κοινωνίασ λαμπρύνειν φιλοκάλου ἅμα καὶ φιλανθρώπου. (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 3-4) 43:1)

Related

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

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