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ἀστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀστικός

Structure: ἀστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/stu

Sense

  1. of a city or town
  2. polite, neat, nice

Examples

  • οὐκ οἶδα ὅλωσ ὅ τι καὶ λέγουσιν οὐδὲ συνίημι τὴν σοφίαν αὐτῶν ὄρειοσ γὰρ ἔγωγε καὶ τὰ κομψὰ ταῦτα ῥημάτια, καὶ ἀστικὰ οὐ μεμάθηκα, ὦ Δίκη. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 11:5)
  • οὐ μεμάθηκα ἀγροίκωσ φιλέειν, ἀλλ’ ἀστικὰ χείλεα θλίβειν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 4)
  • τὰ δ’ ἀστικά μ’ οὐκ ἐφίλασεν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι βουκόλοσ ἐμμὶ παρέδραμε κοὔποτ’ ἀκούει, ὡσ ὁ καλὸσ Διόνυσοσ ἐν ἄγκεσι πόρτιν ἔλαυνεν· (Theocritus, Idylls, 21)
  • ἐσ γὰρ πενταετεσ, ὡσ ἴστε, καὶ τὰ ἀστικὰ ἡμῖν καὶ τὰ ἐτήσια τὰσ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἢ στρατοπέδων ἡγεμονίασ διετάξατο. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 18 3:8)

Synonyms

  1. polite

Related

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

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