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ἀθρόος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀθρόος ἀθρόα ἀθρόον

Structure: ἀθρο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: 계사 a . qro/os

Sense

  1. in crowds or masses, crowded together, in close order, close together
  2. taken together, at once, as a whole, assembled, one, all by a single vote, all at once
  3. multitudinous

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἄνδρεσ δ’, οἳ πρεσβῆεσ ἔσαν γῆράσ τε μέμαρπεν, ἀθρόοι ἔκτοσθεν πυλέων ἔσαν, ἂν δὲ θεοῖσι χεῖρασ ἔχον μακάρεσσι, περὶ σφετέροισι τέκεσσι δειδιότεσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 25:1)
  • ἀθρόοι γοῦν, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, προσίασι θορυβοῦντεσ, ὥσπερ οἱ σφῆκεσ περιβομβοῦντεσ τὴν ἄκραν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 13:3)
  • τότε γὰρ οὐδὲ κατέχειν ἑαυτοὺσ οἱ ἄνθρωποι ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ δύνανται, ἀλλ’ ἀθρόοι πρὸσ τὸν ἔπαινον ἐκχέονται, τὰσ τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ ψυχῆσ ἕκαστοσ εἰκόνασ ὁρῶντεσ καὶ αὑτοὺσ γνωρίζοντεσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 81:3)
  • καὶ μόνον οὕτω πάντεσ οἱ ἡγεμόνεσ ἀθρόοι ἐμπίπτουσι τοῖσ πολεμίοισ. (Arrian, chapter 16 15:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Φούλβιοσ, ὡσ ἐγένοντο πάντεσ ἀθρόοι, πεισθεὶσ ὑπὸ τοῦ Γαϊού πέμπει τῶν υἱῶν τὸν νεώτερον ἔχοντα κηρύκειον εἴσ ἀγοράν. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 16 1:1)
  • οὐδ’ οἱ πρυτάνεισ ἥκουσιν, ἀλλ’ ἀωρίαν ἥκοντεσ, εἶτα δ’ ὠστιοῦνται πῶσ δοκεῖσ ἐλθόντεσ ἀλλήλοισι περὶ πρώτου ξύλου, ἁθρόοι καταρρέοντεσ· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. in crowds or masses

  2. multitudinous

Similar forms

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

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