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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

  • μετὰ ταύτην δὲ καὶ Σωφροσύνην καὶ Ἐγκράτειαν ἐπεισεκόμισαν καὶ πλεονεξίαν ἐκάλεσαν τὴν ἐν ἀπολαύσεσιν ὑπεροχὴν ὥστε τὸν πειθαρχοῦντα τοῖσ νόμοισ καὶ τῇ τῶν πολλῶν φήμῃ μετριάζειν περὶ τὰσ σωματικὰσ ἡδονάσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 6514)
  • περὶ τὴν δίαιταν, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄγαν τὸ ὑγιαῖνον σῶμα φύσει μεγάλασ ἐπιθυμίασ οὐδὲ δυσπειθεῖσ οὐδ’ ἀσυνήθεισ οὐδὲ δυσεκβιάστουσ, ἀλλὰ δεῖ θαρρεῖν πρὸσ τὰσ ὀρέξεισ ἐκφερομένασ καὶ ἐπιπηδώσασ ταῖσ ἀπολαύσεσιν, ὡσ ἐλαφρὸν καὶ παιδικὸν ἐχούσασ τὸ μεμψιμοιροῦν καὶ κλαυθμυριζόμενον, εἶτα παυομένασ ἀρθείσησ τῆσ· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 9 6:1)
  • πάντεσ δ’ οἱ κατοικοῦντεσ ἐν αὐταῖσ, καίπερ δαψιλεῖσ ἔχοντεσ πάντων χορηγίασ αὐτοφυεῖσ, ὅμωσ οὐκ ἀνέδην χρῶνται ταῖσ ἀπολαύσεσιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν λιτότητα διώκουσι καὶ τὴν ἀρκοῦσαν τροφὴν προσφέρονται· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 59 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. enjoyment

Related

Similar forms

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

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