Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀποφώλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποφώλιος ἀποφώλιη ἀποφώλιον

Structure: ἀποφωλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. empty, vain, idle, useless, fruitless

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἦ δὴ ἀλιτρόσ γ’ ἐσσὶ καὶ οὐκ ἀποφώλια εἰδώσ, οἱο͂ν δὴ τὸν μῦθον ἐπεφράσθησ ἀγορεῦσαι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 17:2)
  • περιπλομένου δ’ ἐνιαυτοῦ τέξεισ ἀγλαὰ τέκνα, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἀποφώλιοι εὐναὶ ἀθανάτων· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 29:2)
  • ἠγαγόμην δὲ γυναῖκα πολυκλήρων ἀνθρώπων εἵνεκ’ ἐμῆσ ἀρετῆσ, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἀποφώλιοσ ἠᾶ οὐδὲ φυγοπτόλεμοσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 20:6)
  • ἄλλοσ δ’ αὖ εἶδοσ μὲν ἀλίγκιοσ ἀθανάτοισιν, ἀλλ’ οὔ οἱ χάρισ ἀμφιπεριστέφεται ἐπέεσσιν, ὡσ καὶ σοὶ εἶδοσ μὲν ἀριπρεπέσ, οὐδέ κεν ἄλλωσ οὐδὲ θεὸσ τεύξειε, νόον δ’ ἀποφώλιόσ ἐσσι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 19:7)

Synonyms

  1. empty

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

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