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ἀπόστροφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόστροφος

Structure: ἀποστροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. turned away

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

  • ἀπὸ ὁράσεωσ γυναικὸσ ἑταίρασ καὶ ἀπὸ ἀποστροφῆσ προσώπου συγγενοῦσ, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 41:22)
  • ἄκουε, γῆ. ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπάγω ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον κακά, τὸν καρπὸν ἀποστροφῆσ αὐτῶν, ὅτι τῶν λόγων μου οὐ προσέσχον καὶ τὸν νόμον μου ἀπώσαντο. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 6:19)
  • σφοδρότητα δὲ ἔχει καὶ τὸ τῆσ ἀποστροφῆσ σχῆμα. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 9:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ πράγματοσ οὐκέτ’ ὄντοσ ἀμφισβητησίμου, ἀλλὰ πρῶτον μὲν τῆσ βουλῆσ κατεγνωκυίασ, εἶτα τοῦ δήμου μίαν ἡμέραν ὅλην ἐπὶ τούτοισ αὐτοῖσ ἀναλώσαντοσ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ δικαστηρίοιν δυοῖν εἰσ ἕνα καὶ χιλίουσ ἐψηφισμένων, ἐνούσησ δ’ οὐδεμιᾶσ ἔτ’ ἀποστροφῆσ τοῦ μὴ τὰ χρήματ’ ἔχειν ὑμᾶσ, Τιμοκράτησ οὑτοσὶ τοσοῦθ’ ὑπερεῖδεν ἅπαντα τὰ πράγματα, ὥστε τίθησι τουτονὶ τὸν νόμον, δι’ οὗ τῶν ἱερῶν μὲν χρημάτων τοὺσ θεούσ, τῶν ὁσίων δὲ τὴν πόλιν ἀποστερεῖ, ἄκυρα δὲ τὰ γνωσθένθ’ ὑπὸ τῆσ βουλῆσ καὶ τοῦ δήμου καὶ τοῦ δικαστηρίου καθίστησιν, ἄδειαν δὲ τὰ κοινὰ διαρπάζειν τῷ βουλομένῳ πεποίηκεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 11:1)
  • ὀλίγου δὲ χρεία ἐστὶ πρὸσ τὴν ἀπώλειαν τὴν πάντων καὶ ἀνατροπήν, μικρᾶσ ἀποστροφῆσ τοῦ λόγου. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. turned away

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

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