Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄπλουτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπλουτος

Structure: ἀπλουτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without riches

Examples

  • μέγα μὲν οὖν καὶ τοῦτο ἦν, μεῖζον δὲ τὸ τὸν πλοῦτον ἄζηλον, ὥσ φησι Θεόφραστοσ, καὶ ἄπλουτον ἀπεργάσασθαι τῇ κοινότητι τῶν δείπνων καὶ τῇ περὶ τὴν δίαιταν εὐτελείᾳ, χρῆσισ γάρ οὐκ ἦν οὐδὲ ἀπόλαυσισ οὐδὲ ὄψισ ὅλωσ ἢ ἐπίδειξισ τῆσ πολλῆσ παρασκευῆσ, ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ δεῖπνον τῷ πένητι τοῦ πλουσίου βαδίζοντοσ· (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 10 2:1)
  • "ἄπλουτον γὰρ οἰόνται τὸν πλοῦτον καὶ τυφλὸν ἀληθῶσ καὶ ἀνέξοδον, ἂν μὴ μάρτυρασ ἔχῃ, καθάπερ τραγῳδία, θεατάσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 7:10)

Synonyms

  1. without riches

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

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