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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

  • συμβουλῆσ δὲ τὸ μὲν προτροπή, τὸ δὲ ἀποτροπή· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 3 2:3)
  • τίσ οὖν ἐστιν ἀποτροπὴ τῶν τοιούτων λόγων, ἐγὼ προερῶ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 201 1:1)
  • ὅταν δ’ ἀξιῶσι μὴ πολεμεῖν <ἢ> μὴ συμμαχεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν, τὸ τοιοῦτον εἶδόσ ἐστιν ἀποτροπή. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 92:3)
  • τῆσ ἄρα ῥητορείασ ἐστὶ τὸ μὲν ἐγκώμιον, τὸ δὲ ψόγοσ, τὸ δὲ προτροπή, τὸ δὲ ἀποτροπή, τὸ δὲ κατηγορία, τὸ δὲ ἀπολογία. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 93:5)
  • Σαβίνῳ μὲν οὖν εὐκτὸν ἀπιέναι μετὰ τῶν στρατιωτῶν, πιστεύειν δ’ οὐχ οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν διὰ τὰ πεπραγμένα καὶ τὸ λίαν εὔγνωμον τῶν πολεμίων ἐπ’ ἀποτροπῇ τοῦ κατασταθησομένου εἶχεν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὸν Οὐάρον ἥξειν προσδοκῶν ὑπέμενε τὴν πολιορκίαν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 320:1)

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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