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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

  • ‐ ὦναξ Παιάν, ἀπότροποσ γένοιό μοι πημάτων. (Euripides, Heracles, episode4)
  • εἴ τισ τὸν γε πίοι καὶ ἀπότροποσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 3 2:8)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ παρ’ ὑέσσιν ἀπότροποσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 28:7)
  • τὴν δὲ οὐ παντάπασι κακὴν τύχην αὐτοῦ σεβόμενον καὶ τὸν δαίμονα, ὃσ αὐτὸν καὶ τὸν τρωθέντα ἐλεήσασ ἀπότροποσ αὐτοῖσ ἐγένετο μὴ τῷ μὲν ἀνίατον ἕλκοσ γενέσθαι, τῷ δὲ ἐπάρατον τύχην καὶ συμφοράν, τούτῳ δὴ χάριν τῷ δαίμονι διδόντα καὶ μὴ ἐναντιούμενον, τὸν μὲν θάνατον ἀφελεῖν τοῦ τρώσαντοσ, μετάστασιν δὲ εἰσ τὴν γείτονα πόλιν αὐτῷ γίγνεσθαι διὰ βίου, καρπούμενον ἅπασαν τὴν αὑτοῦ κτῆσιν. (Plato, Laws, book 9 155:1)

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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