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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

  • σωφροσύνησ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ μὴ θαυμάζειν τὰσ ἀπολαύσεισ τῶν σωματικῶν ἡδονῶν, καὶ τὸ εἶναι πάσησ ἀπολαύσεωσ αἰσχρᾶσ ἡδονῆσ ἀνόρεκτον, καὶ τὸ φοβεῖσθαι καὶ τὴν δικαίαν ἄδειαν, καὶ τὸ τετάσθαι περὶ τὸν βίον ὁμοίωσ ἔν τε μικροῖσ καὶ μεγάλοισ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 20:2)
  • ἄτοπα γοῦν ποιεῖν ἔφασκεσ αὐτοὺσ ἐρῶντασ μὲν εἰσ ὑπερβολήν, ἐξὸν δὲ ἀπολαύειν οὐ τολμῶντασ, οὐδὲ ἐπ’ ἀδείασ χρωμένουσ τῷ ἔρωτι κυρίουσ γε ὄντασ, ἀλλὰ φυλάττειν ἐγρηγορότασ, ἐσ τὸ σημεῖον καὶ τὸν μοχλὸν ἀσκαρδαμυκτὶ βλέποντασ, ἱκανὴν ἀπόλαυσιν οἰομένουσ οὐ τὸ αὐτοὺσ ἀπολαύειν ἔχειν, ἀλλὰ τὸ μηδενὶ μεταδιδόναι τῆσ ἀπολαύσεωσ, καθάπερ τὴν ἐν τῇ φάτνῃ κύνα μήτε αὐτὴν ἐσθίουσαν τῶν κριθῶν μήτε τῷ ἵππῳ πεινῶντι ἐπιτρέπουσαν. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 13:6)
  • εἴπερ ὁ κολάζων αὐτὸν θεὸσ προσείων, καθάπερ οἱ τὰ ἄλογα τῶν ζῴων τοῖσ θαλλοῖσ ἄγοντεσ, τοὺσ τοιούτουσ καρποὺσ ἀποκρούεται αὐτὸν τῆσ ἀπολαύσεωσ, ὅτε τῆσ ἐλπίδοσ ἐγγὺσ ἔλθοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 45 3:1)
  • τὸ δίψοσ γὰρ πᾶσιν ἰσχυρὰν ἐπιθυμίαν ἐμποιεῖ τῆσ περιττῆσ ἀπολαύσεωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 433)
  • τὸ δὲ ἡδὺ συνίσταται ἐκ τῆσ ἀπολαύσεωσ τῶν ἡδονῶν· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 10:16)

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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