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ἀπολαυστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπολαυστικός

Structure: ἀπολαυστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from a)polau/w

Sense

  1. devoted to enjoyment, producing enjoyment, of pleasure

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

  • μόνοσ δ’ οὗτοσ τῶν ἀπολαυστικῶν καὶ δακτυλήθρασ ἔχων ἐσθίειν λέγεται τὸ ὄψον, ἵν’ ὡσ θερμότατον ὁ τρισάθλιοσ ἀναδιδῷ τῇ γλώττῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 10 2:2)
  • καίτοι Σοφοκλῆσ γ’ ὁ ποιητήσ, τῶν ἀπολαυστικῶν εἷσ ὤν, ἵνα μὴ κατηγορῇ τοῦ γήρωσ, εἰσ σωφροσύνην ἔθετο τὴν ἀσθένειαν αὐτοῦ τὴν περὶ τὰσ τῶν ἀφροδισίων ἀπολαύσεισ, φήσασ ἀσμένωσ ἀπηλλάχθαι αὐτῶν ὥσπερ τινὸσ ἀγρίου δεσπότου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 22)
  • "ὅτι μὲν οὖν καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ τοῦ σώματοσ ἡδονὰσ ἡ φύσισ δεῖται χορηγίασ πολυτελοῦσ καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν μάζῃ καὶ φακῇ τὸ ἣδιστον, ἀλλ’ ὄψα καὶ Θάσια καὶ μύρα καὶ πεπτὰ καὶ κροτητὰ τῆσ ξουθοπτέρου πελάνῳ μελίσσησ ἀφθόνωσ δεδευμένα ζητοῦσιν αἱ τῶν ἀπολαυστικῶν ὀρέξεισ, καὶ πρόσ γε τούτοισ εὐπρεπεῖσ καὶ νέασ γυναῖκασ οἱαῖ Λεόντιον καὶ Βοίδιον καὶ Ἡδεῖα καὶ Νικίδιον ἐνέμοντο περὶ τὸν κῆπον, ἀφῶμεν, ταῖσ μέντοι τῆσ ψυχῆσ χαραῖσ ὁμολογουμένωσ μέγεθοσ ὑποκεῖσθαι δεῖ πράξεων καὶ κάλλοσ ἔργων ἀξιολόγων, εἰ μέλλουσι μὴ διάκενοι μηδ’ ἀγεννεῖσ καὶ κορασιώδεισ ἀλλ’ ἐμβριθεῖσ ἔσεσθαι καὶ βέβαιοι καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεῖσ; (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 161)

Synonyms

  1. devoted to enjoyment

Related

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

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