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ἀσελγής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσελγής ἀσελγές

Structure: ἀσελγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: The origin of -selgh/s is uncertain.

Sense

  1. licentious, wanton, brutal, extravagantly

Examples

  • δεινῆσ γὰρ οὔσησ τῆσ τότε συμβάσησ ὕβρεωσ οὐκ ἐλάττων ἡ μετὰ ταῦτ’ ἀσέλγει’ ἐστὶ τουτουί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 4:2)
  • ὃσ ἀσελγεῖ τινι νέῳ παρακολουθῶν οὐ διελέγετο μέν, ἐκώλυε δὲ πράττειν τὸν νεανίσκον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 25 1:3)
  • διὸ καὶ θαυμάζομεν, εἰ ἔσται τῷ θεῷ κεχαρισμένον τὸ καθιδρυσόμενον ἱερὸν ἐν ἀσελγεῖ τόπῳ καὶ πλήρει ζῴων ἱερῶν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 85:4)

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

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