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ἀτάσθαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀτάσθαλος ἀτάσθαλη ἀτάσθαλον

Structure: ἀτασθαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/th, though a does not agree in quantity

Sense

  1. presumptuous, reckless, arrogant

Examples

  • ἐκείνω μὲν οὖν τὼ μειρακίω, ἀτασθάλω γὰρ ἤστην, δίκασ ἐτισάτην νὼ δὲ ‐ οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ κακῷ τῶν θεῶν ταῦτα βουλεύομεν ‐ τί οὐχὶ οἰκοδομοῦμεν καὶ αὐτοὶ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἐπικυλινδοῦντεσ ἐπάλληλα τὰ ὄρη, ὡσ ἔχοιμεν ἀφ’ ὑψηλοτέρου ἀκριβεστέραν τὴν σκοπήν; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 3:11)
  • Ἄργεΐ οἱ μοῖρ’ ἐστὶν ἀτασθάλῳ Εὐρυσθῆι ἐκπλῆσαι μογέοντα δυώδεκα πάντασ ἀέθλουσ, ναίειν δ’ ἀθανάτοισι συνέστιον, εἴ κ’ ἔτι παύρουσ ἐξανύσῃ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 23:2)
  • ἀτασθάλῳ ἀνδρὶ ἐοίκασ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 19:3)

Synonyms

  1. presumptuous

Related

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

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