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ἄθυμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθυμος

Structure: ἀθυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without heart, fainthearted, no heart
  2. without passion

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

  • κακῶν γυναικῶν ἔργα καὶ θήλεια φρὴν ποιεῖ μ’ ἄθυμον περιπατεῖν τ’ ἄνω κάτω. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Episode2)
  • ἡ δὲ Κακία παρεστῶσα γυμνὴ καὶ μηδενὸσ δεομένη τῶν ἔξωθεν ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐρωτάτω τὴν Τύχην πῶσ ποιήσει κακοδαίμονα καὶ ἄθυμον τὸν ἄνθρωπον. (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 2:3)
  • ἡ δὲ Κακία παρεστῶσα γυμνὴ καὶ μηδενὸσ δεομένη τῶν ἔξωθεν ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐρωτάτω καὶ τὴν Τύχην, πῶσ ποιήσει κακοδαίμονα καὶ ἄθυμον τὸν ἄνθρωπον. (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 5:2)
  • ἄθυμον καὶ ἀμήνιτον σεαυτόν. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 8 6:1)
  • τάδε μέντοι βάρεοσ καὶ ἤχων καὶ μαρμαρυγῶν ἐστι αἴτια, τῆσ νούσου τὰ ξύμβολα · ἀγρυπνίη δὲ ἄπεπτον, ἄτροφον, καματηρὸν τῷ σκήνεϊ, ἄθυμον, εὐπαράγωγοσ ἡ γνώμη· διὰ τάδε Ῥηϊδίωσ μαίνονται καὶ μελαγχολέουσι οἵδε· ξύμφοροσ δὲ ὁ μέτριοσ, ἐσ τὴν τῆσ τροφῆσ οἰκονομίην , καὶ ἐσ ἀνάπαυλαν τῶν δι’ ἡμέρασ καμάτων. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 90)

Synonyms

  1. without heart

  2. without passion

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

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