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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

  • ἑτέρα δέ τισ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐκείνησ παρελθοῦσα τάξιν, ἀφόρητοσ ἀναιδείᾳ θεατρικῇ καὶ ἀνάγωγοσ καὶ οὔτε φιλοσοφίασ οὔτε ἄλλου παιδεύματοσ οὐδενὸσ μετειληφυῖα ἐλευθερίου, λαθοῦσα καὶ παρακρουσαμένη τὴν τῶν ὄχλων ἄγνοιαν, οὐ μόνον ἐν εὐπορίᾳ καὶ τρυφῇ καὶ μορφῇ πλείονι τῆσ ἑτέρασ διῆγεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰσ τιμὰσ καὶ τὰσ προστασίασ τῶν πόλεων, ἃσ ἔδει τὴν φιλόσοφον ἔχειν, εἰσ ἑαυτὴν ἀνηρτήσατο καὶ ἦν φορτική τισ πάνυ καὶ ὀχληρὰ καὶ τελευτῶσα παραπλησίαν ἐποίησε γενέσθαι τὴν Ἑλλάδα ταῖσ τῶν ἀσώτων καὶ κακοδαιμόνων οἰκίαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 1 1:1)
  • οἰέται γὰρ οὕτωσ ὁ σοφὸσ καὶ τὸν ἀσώτων βίον ἀνεπίληπτον εἶναι, εἴπερ αὐτῷ προσγένοιτο τὸ ἀδεὲσ καὶ ἵλεων διὸ καὶ οἱ τῆσ κωμῳδίασ ποιηταὶ κατατρέχοντέσ που τῆσ ἡδονῆσ καὶ ἀκρασίασ ἐπικούρουσ καὶ βοηθοὺσ βοῶσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 8 2:3)
  • ἀλλ’ οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀσώτων, καθάπερ εἴρηται, καὶ λαμβάνουσιν ὅθεν μὴ δεῖ, καὶ εἰσὶ κατὰ τοῦτο ἀνελεύθεροι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 27:3)
  • εἰ δέ τισ δημόσιοσ οἰκέτησ εἰή, πρεσβυτῶν νεανίσκων, πενήτων, πλουσίων, ἀσώτων, φιλαργύρων, ποῖόσ τισ ἂν ὁ τοιοῦτοσ εἰή; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:1)
  • οἵδε μὲν γὰρ ὥσπερ ἐπίκωμοί τινεσ ἥκουσιν εἰσ τὸν βίον αὐλούμενοι καὶ ᾀδόμενοι καὶ μεθύοντεσ εἰσ ἑορτήν τινα καὶ πανήγυριν ἀσώτων εἰσβεβληκέναι νομίζοντεσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 18:2)

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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