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ἀπόβλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόβλητος ἀπόβλητη ἀπόβλητον

Structure: ἀποβλητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)poba/llw.의 분사형

Sense

  1. to be thrown away

Examples

  • "ἤν γάρ τοῦτο λέγῃ, οὐ πάνυ ἀπόβλητα φήσει. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 23:3)
  • ̔Τὰ μὲν καθ̓ ἡμᾶσ οὕτω γέγονεν ὡσ ἔδοξε τῷ θεῷ, χρὴ δὲ μηδὲν τῶν ὑπ̓ ἐκείνου γιγνομένων χαλεπὸν ἡγεῖσθαι μηδὲ δυσχερῶσ φέρειν, ὡσ παραινοῦσιν ἄλλοι τε σοφοὶ καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα Ὅμηροσ, λέγων μηδαμῇ ἀπόβλητα εἶναι ἀνθρώποισ τὰ θεῶν δῶρα, καλῶσ ὀνομάζων δῶρα τὰ ἔργα τῶν θεῶν, ὡσ ἅπαντα ἀγαθὰ ὄντα καὶ ἐπ̓ ἀγαθῷ γιγνόμενα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 13:3)
  • οὔτοι ἀπόβλητά ἐστι τὰ δῶρα τὰ παρὰ τοῦ Διόσ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 37:5)

Synonyms

  1. to be thrown away

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

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