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ἀπόλεμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόλεμος ἀπόλεμη ἀπόλεμον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + πολεμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unwarlike, unfit for war
  2. peaceful
  3. not to be warred on, invincible
  4. that is no war

Examples

  • Ἔνθα δὴ ἐθελονταὶ ἤδη αὐτῷ ἀπῄεσαν τῶν Μακεδόνων ὅσοι διὰ γῆρασ ἤ τινα ἄλλην ξυμφορὰν ἀπόλεμοι ἦσαν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 12 1:1)
  • ἔνθα χῶρόν τινα ἐν καλῷ ἰδὼν πόλιν ἐξῳκοδόμησέ τε καὶ ἐτείχισε, καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ κατῴκισε τῶν Ἑλλήνων τινὰσ τῶν μισθοφόρων, ὅσοι τε ἑκόντεσ καὶ ὅσοι ὑπὸ γήρωσ ἢ κατὰ πήρωσιν ἀπόλεμοι ἦσαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 21 7:2)
  • ἐχρῶντο γὰρ ἀπείρωσ τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ἀπόλεμοι τελέωσ ὄντεσ, τόξοισ τε καὶ λόγχαισ [καὶ] ξίφεσι καὶ σφενδόναισ, οἱ πλεῖστοι δ’ αὐτῶν ἀμφιστόμοισ πελέκεσιν· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 47:21)
  • ‐ καὶ Βρόμιοσ ἄλλον ἀπολέμοι‐ σι κισσίνοισι βάκτροισ ἐναίρει Γᾶσ τέκνων ὁ Βακχεύσ. (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 29)

Synonyms

  1. peaceful

  2. not to be warred on

  3. that is no war

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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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