Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπέραντος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπέραντος ἀπέραντη ἀπέραντον

Structure: ἀπεραντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: perai/nw

Sense

  1. boundless, infinite, endless, countless, no end to it
  2. allowing no escape

Examples

  • ἰδοὺ ὁ Ἰσχυρὸσ πολύσ, καὶ οὐ γνωσόμεθα. ἀριθμὸσ ἐτῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπέραντοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 36:26)
  • εἰ δ’ ὡσ ἐκ τριῶν, ἀπέραντοσ ὁ λόγοσ γενήσεται. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 76)
  • τῶν δ’ ἐκ τῶν ὀρῶν καὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ χώρασ ἀπέραντοσ μὲν ἀριθμὸσ ἀνθρώπων ἐλέγετο, κατὰ δὲ τόπουσ καὶ κώμασ εἰσ τούτουσ τοὺσ κλήρουσ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ ἅπαντεσ διενενέμηντο. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 88:1)
  • ὥσθ’ ὁ δι’ ἐκείνων ἄγων ἐπὶ τὴν Μαιῶτιν τὸν Τάναϊν, εἶτ’ ἐπιστρέφων ἐπ’ αὐτήν αἱ γὰρ ἐκβολαὶ φανερῶσ ἐν τοῖσ προσαρκτίοισ μέρεσι τῆσ λίμνησ δείκνυνται καὶ τούτοισ τοῖσ ἑωθινωτάτοισ, πλαστὸσ ἄν τισ εἰή καὶ ἀπέραντοσ λόγοσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 4 12:3)
  • ὡσ δ’ αὕτωσ ἀπέραντοσ καὶ ὁ διὰ τοῦ Καυκάσου πρὸσ ἄρκτον φήσασ ῥεῖν, εἶτ’ ἐπιστρέφειν εἰσ τὴν Μαιῶτιν· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 4 12:4)

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

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