Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀσύνετος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσύνετος ἀσύνετη ἀσύνετον

Structure: ἀσυνετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. void of understanding, stupid, not to be understood, unintelligible

Examples

  • οὔ τἄρ’ ἀσυνέτουσ τοὺσ θεοὺσ ἡγοίμεθ’ ἄν, εἰ τοῖσιν αὐθένταισιν εὖ φρονήσομεν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 2:6)
  • τὸ γὰρ λίθουσ τε καὶ φυτὰ καὶ θηρία κηλεῖν καὶ ἄγειν τί ἔστιν ἕτερον ἢ τὸ βαρβάρουσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀσυνέτουσ τῆσ Ἑλληνικῆσ φωνῆσ οὕτωσ ἄγαν χειρώσασθαι, μήτε τῆσ γλώττησ μήτε τῶν πραγμάτων ἐμπείρουσ ὄντασ, ὑπὲρ ὧν ὁ λόγοσ, ἀλλὰ ἀτεχνῶσ καθάπερ οἶμαι πρὸσ κιθάραν κηλουμένουσ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 13:5)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ ἀσυνέτουσ ἀγνοεῖν, τί ποτέ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ βίῳ κατὰ ἀλήθειαν ἀγαθόν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri x, chapter 7 31:2)
  • οὕτωσ δὲ μεμηνότασ αὐτοὺσ ὁρῶν ὁ θεὸσ ἀφανίσαι μὲν ἐκ παντὸσ οὐκ ἔκρινεν, ὅτι μηδ’ ὑπὸ τῶν πρώτων ἀπολωλότων σωφρονισθεῖεν, εἰσ στάσιν δὲ αὐτοὺσ ἐνέβαλεν ἀλλογλώσσουσ ἀπεργασάμενοσ καὶ ὑπὸ πολυφωνίασ ποιήσασ ἑαυτῶν ἀσυνέτουσ εἶναι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 144:3)

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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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