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ἀπρόθυμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπρόθυμος ἀπρόθυμη ἀπρόθυμον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + προθυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not eager or ready, unready, backward

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον τεχνίτασ ὁρῶμεν ἐκλελυμένουσ καὶ ἀπροθύμουσ καὶ οὐκ ἀκριβῶσ πολλάκισ ἀγωνιζομένουσ ἐν τοῖσ θεάτροισ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν· (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 3 11:1)
  • καὶ τοὺσ συμμάχουσ περιπέμποντεσ ἤθροιζον, ἀπροθύμουσ μὲν ὄντασ καὶ βαρυνομένουσ τὸν πόλεμον, οὔπω δὲ θαρροῦντασ ἀντιλέγειν οὐδὲ ἀπειθεῖν τοῖσ Λακεδαιμονίοισ. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 28 3:2)
  • "ὁ Λεωνίδησ, ἐπεὶ τ’ ᾔσθετο τοὺσ συμμάχουσ ἐόντασ ἀπροθύμουσ καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλοντασ· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 31 13:1)
  • ταύτῃ καὶ μᾶλλον τὴν γνώμην πλεῖστοσ εἰμί, Λεωνίδην, ἐπείτε ᾔσθετο τοὺσ συμμάχουσ ἐόντασ ἀπροθύμουσ καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλοντασ συνδιακινδυνεύειν, κελεῦσαι σφέασ ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι, αὐτῷ δὲ ἀπιέναι οὐ καλῶσ ἔχειν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 220 3:1)

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

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