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ἀπηνής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπηνής ἀπηνές

Structure: ἀπηνη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Deriv. of -hnhs, as in proshnh/s, uncertain.

Sense

  1. ungentle, harsh, rough, hard

Examples

  • ἐν παιδοτρίβου δὲ καθίζοντασ τὸν μηρὸν ἔδει προβαλέσθαι τοὺσ παῖδασ, ὅπωσ τοῖσ ἔξωθεν μηδὲν δείξειαν ἀπηνέσ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme6)
  • τὸ δ’ αὖ μήτε ἄλλουσ δέχεσθαι μήτε αὐτοὺσ ἄλλοσε ἀποδημεῖν ἅμα μὲν οὐκ ἐγχωρεῖ τό γε παράπαν, ἔτι δὲ ἄγριον καὶ ἀπηνὲσ φαίνοιτ’ ἂν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀνθρώποισ, ὀνόμασίν τε χαλεποῖσ ταῖσιν λεγομέναισ ξενηλασίαισ χρωμένουσ καὶ τρόποισ αὐθάδεσι καὶ χαλεποῖσ, ὡσ δοκοῖεν ἄν· (Plato, Laws, book 12 61:2)

Synonyms

  1. ungentle

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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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