Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄπιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπιος ἄπιη ἄπιον

Structure: ἀπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: The first sense has short a, the latter a_.

Sense

  1. far away, far off, distant
  2. Apian, Peloponnesian, the Peloponnese, Argolis

Examples

  • ἐμβαλὼν δὲ εἰσ χώραν τραχύτητι χαλεπὴν καὶ ὁμιχλώδη καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ σπόρου καρπῶν ἄγονον, ἀπίοισ δὲ καὶ μήλοισ καὶ τοιούτοισ ἄλλοισ ἀκροδρύοισ τρέφουσαν ἀνθρώπουσ πολεμικοὺσ καὶ θυμοειδεῖσ, ἔλαθε μεγάλαισ ἀπορίαισ καὶ κινδύνοισ περιπεσών. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 24 1:3)
  • εἰ δὲ πλείω μοι δοὺσ ἀπίοισ ἢ λαμβάνοισ παρ’ ἐμοῦ, μὰ τοὺσ θεοὺσ οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπωσ ἂν δυναίμην μὴ αἰσχύνεσθαι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 40:5)

Synonyms

  1. far away

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

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