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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

  • αὐτίκα δὲ τὸ μέγιστον τραῦμα τοῖσ ἡμετέροισ ἐγένετο, δισμυρίων που σχεδὸν ἀθρόων ^ ἀπολομένων. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 48:6)
  • λοιπὸν δὴ καὶ ἀληθέστατον μέν, ἥκιστα δὲ πρὸσ αὐτῶν λεγόμενον, ἡδονῆσ ἕνεκα καὶ τῶν πολλῶν καὶ ἀθρόων ἐλπίδων εἰσπηδᾶν αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὰσ οἰκίασ, καταπλαγέντασ μὲν τὸ πλῆθοσ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀργύρου, εὐδαιμονήσαντασ δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖσ δείπνοισ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ τρυφῇ, ἐλπίσαντασ δὲ ὅσον αὐτίκα χανδὸν οὐδενὸσ ἐπιστομίζοντοσ πίεσθαι τοῦ χρυσίου. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 7:1)
  • καὶ πλῆθοσ ὥσπερ ῥευμάτων ἀθρόων εἰσ μίαν ἐμπέπτωκεν ἀγορὰν καὶ φλεγμαίνει καὶ· (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 4 8:1)
  • ὠθουμένων δὲ πολλῶν ἐπ’ ἀλλήλοισ καὶ ἀθρόων ὑπήγαγεν ὁ ῥοῦσ οὐ πολὺν τόπον, ἀλλ’ ὅπου τὰ πρῶτα συνενεχθέντα καὶ περιπεσόντα τοῖσ στερεοῖσ ὑπέστη, τῶν ἐπιφερομένων διέξοδον οὐκ ἐχόντων, ἀλλ’ ἐνισχομένων καὶ περιπλεκομένων, ἐλάμβανεν ἡ σύμπηξισ ἰσχὺν καὶ ῥίζωσιν αὐξανομένην ὑπὸ τοῦ ῥεύματοσ, ἰλύν τε γὰρ ἐπήγαγε πολλήν, ἣ προσισταμένη τροφὴν παρεῖχεν ἅμα καὶ κόλλησιν, αἵ τε πληγαὶ σάλον οὐκ ἐποίουν, ἀλλὰ μαλακῶσ πιέζουσαι συνήλαυνον εἰσ ταὐτὸ πάντα καὶ συνέπλαττον. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 8 2:2)
  • ἔπειτα πολλῶν ἐπιπεσόντων ἀθρόων ἀμυνό‐ μενοσ καὶ βραχὺν ἀντισχὼν χρόνον ἀπεκόπη ὑπό τινοσ τὸν βραχίονα καὶ πίπτει καὶ κατακοπεὶσ ὥσπερ θηρίον ἀποθνήσκει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 2 8:1)

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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