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ἀπόλαυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόλαυσις

Structure: ἀπολαυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)polau/w

Sense

  1. enjoyment, fruition
  2. advantage got from, as a reward for

Declension

Third 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

  • "Μελάνθιοσ δὲ τῶν ἀπολαύσεων ἐρῶν, ηὔξατο τῆσ μακραύχενοσ ὄρνιθοσ τὸν τράχηλον ἔχειν, ἵν’ ὅτι πλεῖστον τοῖσ ἡδέσιν ἐνδιατρίβῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 10 1:3)
  • καὶ μονόχρονον αὐτὴν εἶναι, παραπλησίωσ τοῖσ ἀσώτοισ οὔτε τὴν μνήμην τῶν γεγονυιῶν ἀπολαύσεων πρὸσ αὑτὸν ἡγούμενοσ οὔτε τὴν ἐλπίδα τῶν ἐσομένων, ἀλλ’ ἑνὶ μόνῳ τὸ ἀγαθὸν κρίνων τῷ παρόντι, τὸ δὲ ἀπολελαυκέναι καὶ ἀπολαύσειν οὐδὲν νομίζων πρὸσ αὑτόν, τὸ μὲν ὡσ οὐκέτ’ ὄν, τὸ δὲ οὔπω καὶ ἄδηλον ὁποῖον καὶ οἱ τρυφῶντεσ πάσχουσι τὸ παρὸν εὖ ποιεῖν ἀξιοῦντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 633)
  • Τιθωνὸν δ’ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἑώ μέχρι δυσμῶν κοιμώμενον μόλισ αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι πρὸσ ἑσπέραν ἐπήγειρον ὅθεν Ηοἶ συγκοιμᾶσθαι λεχθείσ, διὰ τὸ ταῖσ ἐπιθυμίαισ ἐμπεπλέχθαι ἐπὶ γήρωσ ἐν ταλάρῳ καθεῖρκται, κρεμαστὸσ ὢν πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν ἐκ τούτων, καὶ Μελάνθιοσ δὲ τὸν αὑτοῦ τράχηλον κατατείνων ἀπήγχετο ἐκ τῶν ἀπολαύσεων, κνισότεροσ ὢν τοῦ Ὀδυσσέωσ Μελανθίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 721)

Synonyms

  1. enjoyment

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

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