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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

  • ἐλελήθεισ με, ὦ γεννάδα, οὐ τυφλὸσ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ χωλὸσ ὤν οὐκ ἀεὶ τοῦτο, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, ἀλλ’ ὁπόταν μὲν ἀπίω παρά τινα πεμφθεὶσ ὑπὸ τοῦ Διόσ, οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπωσ βραδύσ εἰμι καὶ χωλὸσ ἀμφοτέροισ, ὡσ μόγισ τελεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ τέρμα, προγηράσαντοσ ἐνίοτε τοῦ περιμένοντοσ, ὁπόταν δὲ ἀπαλλάττεσθαι δέῃ, πτηνὸν ὄψει, πολὺ τῶν ὀνείρων ὠκύτερον· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 20:4)
  • "φύλλον δὲ ὅμοιον ἔχει τῷ τῆσ μεσπίλησ, σκληρὸν δὲ καὶ πλατύτερον, φλοιὸν δ’ ὅμοιον φιλύρᾳ, ἄνθοσ δὲ λευκόν, ἀπίῳ καὶ μεσπίλῃ ὅμοιον, ἐκ μικρῶν ἀνθῶν συγκείμενον, κηριῶδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 344)
  • "Δέδωκα Διογένει διαθήκασ ἐμαυτοῦ κομίσαι πρὸσ σέ διὰ γὰρ τὸ πολλάκισ ἀρρωστεῖν καὶ τὸ σῶμα ἀσθενῶσ ἔχειν ἔδοξέ μοι διαθέσθαι, ἵν’ εἴ τι γένοιτο ἀλλοῖον, μήτι σὲ ἠδικηκὼσ ἀπίω τὸν εἰσ ἔμ’ ἐκτενῶσ οὕτω πεφιλοτιμημένον. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. s'. ARKESILAOS 17:1)

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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