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ἄστοργος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄστοργος

Structure: ἀστοργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: storgh/

Sense

  1. without natural affection, the heartless one

Examples

  • "οὐ γῆ θερμότητοσ μετεῖχεν, οὐχ ὕδωρ πνεύματοσ, οὐκ ἄνω τι τῶν βαρέων οὐ κάτω τι τῶν κούφων, ἀλλ’ ἄκρατοι καὶ ἄστοργοι καὶ μονάδεσ αἱ τῶν ὅλων ἀρχαί, μὴ προσιέμεναι σύγκρισιν ἑτέρου πρὸσ ἕτερον μηδὲ κοινωνίαν, ἀλλὰ φεύγουσαι καὶ ἀποστρεφόμεναι καὶ φερόμεναι φορὰσ ἰδίασ καὶ αὐθάδεισ οὕτωσ εἶχον, ὡσ ἔχει πᾶν οὗ θεὸσ ἄπεστι, κατὰ Πλάτωνα, τουτέστιν, ὡσ ἔχει τὰ σώματα, νοῦ καὶ ψυχῆσ ἀπολιπούσησ· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 12 2:7)

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

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