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ἄπρακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπρακτος

Structure: ἀπρακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. doing nothing, ineffectual, unprofitable
  2. without success, unsuccessful, unsuccessfully
  3. against which nothing can be done, impracticable
  4. not to be done, impossible
  5. not done, left undone
  6. unassailed

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ τηροῦντεσ ἅμα τὸν συνασπισμὸν ἐπέβαινον, καὶ προσπεσόντεσ ἐξεώθουν τὰ γέρρα, καὶ τοῖσ δόρασι τύπτοντεσ πρόσωπα καὶ στέρνα τῶν Περσῶν πολλοὺσ κατέβαλλον, οὐκ ἀπράκτωσ οὐδὲ ἀθύμωσ πίπτοντασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 18 3:2)
  • καὶ αὐτοῦ περὶ τοῖν παίδοιν προεῖπον ἀμφοῖν βεβασιλευκότοιν, Σελεύκου τε καὶ Ἀντιόχου, Σελεύκου μὲν ἔτεσι δώδεκα, ἀπράκτωσ ἅμα καὶ ἀσθενῶσ διὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸσ συμφοράν, Ἀντιόχου δὲ δώδεκα οὐ πλήρεσιν, ἐν οἷσ Ἀρταξίαν τὸν Ἀρμένιον εἷλε, καὶ ἐσ Αἴγυπτον ἐστράτευσεν ἐπὶ ἕκτον Πτολεμαῖον, ὀρφανευόμενον μετ’ ἀδελφοῦ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. not to be done

  2. not done

  3. unassailed

Related

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

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