Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπότροπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπότροπος

Structure: ἀποτροπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)potre/pw

Sense

  1. turned away, banished
  2. from which one turns away, direful, grim
  3. turning away, averting

Examples

  • οὐχ ὁρῶ γὰρ ὅ τι ἂν ἀπολαύσαιμεν τῆσ ἐπιμελείασ ταύτησ, εἰ μήτε τῶν φαύλων ἀποτροπὰσ εὑρέσθαι δυνατὸν ἡμῖν ἐκ τῶν εὐχῶν μήτε ἀγαθοῦ τινοσ θεοσδότου ἐπιτυχεῖν. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 5:5)
  • ὅσα μέντοι πρὸσ ἱλασμοὺσ θεῶν ἢ τεράτων ἀποτροπὰσ συνηγόρευον οἱ μάντεισ ἐπράττετο. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 18 3:1)
  • καὶ περὶ τὰσ ἐκθύσεισ καὶ ἀποτροπὰσ δυσιεροῦντεσ οἱ μάντεισ κατεῖχον αὐτὸν ἐν Ῥώμῃ σπαργῶντα καὶ φλεγόμενον. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 28 2:1)
  • ταῦτα δὲ ἀγαθά ἐστι δι’ ἄλλο τι ἢ ὅτι εἰσ ἡδονὰσ ἀποτελευτᾷ καὶ λυπῶν ἀπαλλαγάσ τε καὶ ἀποτροπάσ; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 373:3)
  • ἀντέχονται δ’ ἐπὶ πολὺ καὶ μαντικῆσ, ποιούμενοι προρρήσεισ περὶ τῶν μελλόντων, καὶ τῶν μὲν καθαρμοῖσ, τῶν δὲ θυσίαισ, τῶν δ’ ἄλλαισ τισὶν ἐπῳδαῖσ ἀποτροπὰσ κακῶν καὶ τελειώσεισ ἀγαθῶν πειρῶνται πορίζειν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 29 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. turned away

  2. turning away

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

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