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ἀποτρόπαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποτρόπαιος

Structure: ἀποτροπαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)potre/pw

Sense

  1. averting evil
  2. that ought to be averted, ill-omened

Examples

  • τὴν δὲ πόλιν αὐτὴν ὁρῶν ὀλιγωρίᾳ τῶν προεστώτων διεφθαρμένην, τῶν πολλῶν κλεπτόντων, μᾶλλον δὲ ἁρπαζόντων τὰ κοινά, ὑδάτων τε ἐπιρροίαισ ἀνεκτησάμην καὶ οἰκοδομημάτων ἀναστάσεσιν ἐκόσμησα καὶ τειχῶν περιβολῇ ἐκράτυνα καὶ τὰσ προσόδουσ, ὅσαι ἦσαν κοιναί, τῇ τῶν ἐφεστώτων ἐπιμελείᾳ ῥᾳδίωσ ἐπηύξησα καὶ τῆσ νεολαίασ ἐπεμελούμην καὶ τῶν γερόντων προὐνόουν καὶ τὸν δῆμον ἐν θέαισ καὶ διανομαῖσ καὶ πανηγύρεσι καὶ δημοθοινίαισ διῆγον, ὕβρεισ δὲ παρθένων ἢ ἐφήβων διαφθοραὶ ἢ γυναικῶν ἀπαγωγαὶ ἢ δορυφόρων ἐπιπέμψεισ ἢ δεσποτική τισ ἀπειλὴ ἀποτρόπαιά μοι καὶ ἀκοῦσαι ἦν. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 3:5)
  • ἃ μὲν γὰρ εὔξασθαι καθ̓ ὑμῶν ἀπειλοῦσιν, ἀποτρόπαια, μηδὲ γένοιτο εἰσ ἀνάγκην αὐτοὺσ καταστῆναι τῆσ εὐχῆσ· (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 5:3)
  • ἂν γὰρ ὗσ τεκοῦσα δελφάκιον ἢ κύων διασπαράξῃ σκυλάκιον, ἀθυμοῦσι καὶ ταράττονται καὶ θεοῖσ ἀποτρόπαια θύουσι καὶ τέρασ νομίζουσιν, ὡσ πᾶσι κατὰ φύσιν στέργειν τὰ τικτόμενα καὶ τρέφειν οὐκ ἀναιρεῖν προσῆκον. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 5 1:5)
  • καὶ χαριστήρια, τῷ δ’ ἀποτρόπαια καὶ σκυθρωπά. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 46 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. averting evil

  2. that ought to be averted

Related

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

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