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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

  • τὸ δὲ δὴ πάντων ἀσελγέστερον, τὴν περὶ τὰσ μίξεισ ἀκρασίαν καὶ τοὺσ ἔρωτασ πῶσ οὐκ ἄτοπον μικροῦ δεῖν ἅπασι προσάψαι καὶ τοῖσ ἄρρεσι τῶν θεῶν καὶ ταῖσ θηλείαισ; (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 213:2)
  • ὡσ οὔποτε φιλεῖ τὰ μοχθηρὰ μένειν ἐπὶ τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ, ἀλλ’ ἀεὶ κινεῖται καὶ πρόεισιν ἐπὶ τὸ ἀσελγέστερον, μηδενὸσ ἀναγκαίου μέτρου τυγχάνοντα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 166:1)

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

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