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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

  • Σκέδασοσ δὲ ταῦτα ἀκούων ἀθύμωσ διέκειτο, ὑπολαμβάνων ὅτι οὐδ’ αὐτοῦ λόγον τινὰ ποιήσονται οἱ Σπαρτιᾶται ἐν μέρει τε τὴν οἰκείαν διηγήσατο συμφορὰν τῷ ξένῳ· (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 3 14:1)
  • οἱ δὲ τηροῦντεσ ἅμα τὸν συνασπισμὸν ἐπέβαινον, καὶ προσπεσόντεσ ἐξεώθουν τὰ γέρρα, καὶ τοῖσ δόρασι τύπτοντεσ πρόσωπα καὶ στέρνα τῶν Περσῶν πολλοὺσ κατέβαλλον, οὐκ ἀπράκτωσ οὐδὲ ἀθύμωσ πίπτοντασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 18 3:2)
  • καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ ἐκ θεῶν ἐλπίδασ ἀθύμωσ εἶχον, ἐννοοῦντεσ ὡσ ἀνὴρ θεοφιλὴσ καὶ πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα λαμπρυνάμενοσ πρὸσ τὸ θεῖον οὐδενὸσ ἐπιεικεστέρᾳ τύχῃ χρῆται τῶν κακίστων ἐν τῷ στρατεύματι καὶ ταπεινοτάτων. (Plutarch, , chapter 26 6:1)
  • οἱ δ’ αὖ θεῖοι καὶ ἀγαθοὶ καὶ ἐπιστήμονεσ ἄρχοντεσ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ τούτουσ, πολλάκισ δὲ καὶ ἄλλουσ παραλαμβάνοντεσ, αἰσχυνομένουσ τε ἔχουσιν αἰσχρόν τι ποιεῖν καὶ πείθεσθαι οἰομένουσ βέλτιον εἶναι, καὶ ἀγαλλομένουσ τῷ πείθεσθαι ἕνα ἕκαστον καὶ σύμπαντασ, πονεῖν ὅταν δεήσῃ, οὐκ ἀθύμωσ πονοῦντασ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 21 6:1)
  • ἃ λογιζόμενοσ πάνυ ἀθύμωσ ἔχω πρὸσ τὴν τῶν φίλων κτῆσιν· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 6 20:1)

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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