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ἀστιβής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀστιβής ἀστιβές

Structure: ἀστιβη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: stei/bw

Sense

  1. untrodden, desert, pathless
  2. not to be trodden, holy

Examples

  • προσέβα γὰρ οὐκ ἄν ποτ’ ἀστιβὲσ ἄλσοσ ἐσ τᾶνδ’ ἀμαιμακετᾶν κορᾶν, ἃσ τρέμομεν λέγειν καὶ παραμειβόμεσθ’ ἀδέρκτωσ, ἀφώνωσ, ἀλόγωσ τὸ τᾶσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 17)
  • Ἄκρα ἦν ἀνέχουσα τῆσ ὄχθησ τοῦ Ὑδάσπου, ἵνα ἐπέκαμπτεν ὁ ποταμὸσ λόγου ἀξίωσ, αὐτή τε δασεῖα ἴδῃ παντοίων δένδρων καὶ κατ̓ αὐτὴν νῆσοσ ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ ὑλώδησ τε καὶ ἀστιβὴσ ὑπ̓ ἐρημίασ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 11 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. not to be trodden

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

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