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ἄσωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσωτος

Structure: ἀσωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sw/zw

Sense

  1. having no hope of safety, abandoned, profligate
  2. bringing ruin on, fatal

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ σοφὸσ ἐκεῖνοσ Ζήνων, ὥσ φησιν Ἀντίγονοσ ὁ Καρύστιοσ, προμαντευόμενοσ ὑμῶν, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, περὶ τοῦ βίου καὶ τῆσ προσποιητοῦ ἐπιτηδεύσεωσ ἔφη ὡσ οἱ παρακούσαντεσ αὐτοῦ τῶν λόγων καὶ μὴ συνέντεσ ἔσονται ῥυπαροὶ καὶ ἀνελεύθεροι, καθάπερ οἱ τῆσ Ἀριστίππου παρενεχθέντεσ αἱρέσεωσ ἄσωτοι καὶ θρασεῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 191)
  • διότι τὸ μὲν μετ’ οὐδετέρου γίνεται αὐτῶν, τὰ δὲ πολλάκισ μετ’ ἀλλήλων καί εἰσιν ἐνίοτε οἱ αὐτοὶ θρασύδειλοι, καὶ τὰ μὲν ἄσωτοι τὰ δὲ ἀνελεύθεροι, καὶ ὅλωσ ἀνώμαλοι κακῶσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 145:1)
  • ὁκόσα γὰρ ὑπὰρ ἐκτρέπονται ὁποίου ὦν κακοῦ, τάδε ἐνύπνιον ὁρέουσι ὡρ́μησε· πρὸσ τὸ Ῥηί̈διον μεταγνῶναι εὔκολοι, αἰσχροὶ, σμικρολόγοι, ἄδωροι, καὶ μετ’ οὐ πολὺ ἁπλοῖ, ἄσωτοι, πολύδωροι, οὐκ ἀρετῇ ψυχῆσ, ἀλλὰ ποικιλίῃ νοσήματοσ· ἢν δὲ ἐπὶ μᾶλλον τὸ κακὸν πιέζῃ, μῖσοσ, φυγανθρωπίη, ὀλόφυρσοι ἐσ κενεὰ, ζωῆσ κακήγοροι· ἔρανται δὲ θανάτου. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 49)
  • ταχέωσ γὰρ ἐπιλείπει ἡ οὐσία τοὺσ ἰδιώτασ διδόντασ, οἵπερ καὶ δοκοῦσιν ἄσωτοι εἶναι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 25:2)
  • καὶ ἐπειδὰν ἀπιέναι δέῃ, οἱ μὲν ἄσωτοι καὶ ἀκρατεῖσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκολουθούντων ἕλκονται καὶ σύρονται μετὰ πόνων τε καὶ νοσημάτων κεκραγότεσ καὶ οἰμώζοντεσ, οὐδὲν εἰδότεσ οὔτε ὅποι παρῆλθον οὔτε ὅπωσ εἱστιάθησαν, κἂν πάνυ πολύν τισ αὐτῶν μείνῃ χρόνον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 71:1)

Synonyms

  1. bringing ruin on

Related

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

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