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ἄθρυπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθρυπτος ἄθρυπτη ἄθρυπτον

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

Etym.: qru/ptw

Sense

  1. not broken, not enervated, never breaking

Examples

  • "καὶ τὰσ καλὰσ ταύτασ καὶ ἱερὰσ ἀναμνήσεισ καλοῦμεν ἡμεῖσ ἐπὶ τὸ θεῖον καὶ ἀληθινὸν καὶ ὀλύμπιον ἐκεῖνο κάλλοσ, αἷσ ψυχὴ πτεροῦται, τί ἂν κωλύοι γίγνεσθαι μὲν ἀπὸ παίδων καὶ ἀπὸ νεανίσκων, γίγνεσθαι δ’ ἀπὸ παρθένων καὶ γυναικῶν, ὅταν ἦθοσ ἁγνὸν καὶ κόσμιον ἐν ὡρ́ᾳ καὶ χάριτι μορφῆσ διαφανὲσ γένηται, καθάπερ ὄρθιον ὑπόδημα δείκνυσι ποδὸσ εὐφυϊάν, ὡσ Ἀρίστων ἔλεγεν ὅταν ἐν εἴδεσι καλοῖσ καὶ καθαροῖσ σώμασιν ἴχνη λαμπρὰ καὶ κείμενα ψυχῆσ ὀρθὰ καὶ ἄθρυπτα κατίδωσιν οἱ δεινοὶ τῶν τοιούτων αἰσθάνεσθαι; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 215)
  • ψυχῆσ, τῇ δ’ ἀρετῇ μία λαβὴ τὰ ὦτα τῶν νέων ἐστίν, ἂν καθαρὰ καὶ ἄθρυπτα κολακείᾳ καὶ λόγοισ ἄθικτα φαύλοισ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ φυλάττηται. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 2 6:1)

Related

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

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