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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

  • τῷ δὲ λέπεσθαι χρῶνται οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐπ’ ἀσελγοῦσ καὶ φορτικῆσ δι’ ἀφροδισίων ἡδονῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 83 5:1)
  • τῆσ δὲ Κλωδίασ ἀπηλλαγμένοσ, οὔσησ ἀσελγοῦσ καὶ πονηρᾶσ, Σερουϊλίαν ἔγημεν, ἀδελφὴν Κάτωνοσ, οὐδὲ τοῦτον εὐτυχῆ γάμον. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 38 1:1)

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

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