Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀσώματος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσώματος ἀσώματη ἀσώματον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + σωματ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sw=ma

Sense

  1. unembodied, incorporeal

Examples

  • πλὴν ἀλλ’ ἀκούω γε αὐτῶν ἀεὶ κεκραγότων καὶ ἀρετήν τινα καὶ ἰδέασ καὶ φύσιν καὶ ἀσώματα διεξιόντων, ἄγνωστα ἐμοὶ καὶ ξένα ὀνόματα. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 11:8)
  • ὅσ γε ἰδέασ καὶ ἀσώματα καὶ ἀτόμουσ καὶ κενὰ καὶ τοιοῦτόν τινα ὄχλον ὀνομάτων ὁσημέραι παρ’ αὐτῶν ἀκούων ἐναυτίων. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 4:8)
  • τί δ’ εἰ ἀκούσειασ, ὦ θαυμάσιε, περί τε ἰδεῶν καὶ ἀσωμάτων ἃ διεξέρχονται ἢ τοὺσ περὶ τοῦ πέρατόσ τε καὶ ἀπείρου λόγουσ; (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 8:5)
  • "ἐχρῆν μὲν ἴσωσ, ἔφη, τοιούτων ἀνδρῶν παρόντων περὶ ἰδεῶν τε καὶ ἀσωμάτων εἰπεῖν καὶ ψυχῆσ ἀθανασίασ· (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 39:2)
  • μαχομένων γὰρ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ καὶ κεκραγότων οὐδὲ ἐπακούειν ἔστι τῶν εὐχῶν ὥστε ἢ ἐπιβυσάμενον χρὴ τὰ ὦτα καθῆσθαι ἢ ἐπιτριβῆναι πρὸσ αὐτῶν, ἀρετήν τινα καὶ ἀσώματα καὶ λήρουσ μεγάλῃ τῇ φωνῇ συνειρόντων. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 9:5)
  • ἀκοσμία δ’ οὐκ ἀσώματοσ οὐδ’ ἀκίνητοσ οὐδ’ ἄψυχοσ ἀλλ’ ἄμορφον μὲν καὶ ἀσύστατον τὸ σωματικὸν ἔμπληκτον δὲ καὶ ἄλογον τὸ κινητικὸν ἔχουσα τοῦτο δ’ ἦν ἀναρμοστία ψυχῆσ οὐκ ἐχούσησ λόγον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 5 6:1)
  • ἁπλοῦν οὐδ’ ἀσύνθετον ἀλλ’ ἐξ ἑτέρου καὶ δι’ ἑτέρον ἀποφαίνουσιν ἡ δ’ ὕλη καθ’ αὑτὴν ἄλογοσ οὖσα καὶ ἄποιοσ τὸ ἁπλοῦν ἔχει καὶ τὸ ἀρχοειδὲσ ὁ θεὸσ δέ, εἴπερ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀσώματοσ οὐδ’ ἀύλοσ, ὡσ ἀρχῆσ μετέσχηκε τῆσ ὕλησ. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 48 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ θεὸσ νοῦσ ἐστι τοῦ κόσμου, ὕλη δὲ τὸ ὑποκείμενον πρῶτον γενέσει καὶ φθορᾷ, ἰδέα δ’ οὐσία ἀσώματοσ ἐν τοῖσ νοήμασι καὶ ταῖσ φαντασίαισ τοῦ θεοῦ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, chapter 3 45:1)
  • ἰδέα ἐστὶν οὐσία ἀσώματοσ, αὐτὴ μὲν μὴ ὑφεστῶσα καθ’ αὑτήν, εἰκονίζουσα δὲ τὰσ ἀμόρφουσ; (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 1:1)
  • πᾶσα δ’ ἐπιφάνεια ἀσώματοσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. unembodied

Related

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

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