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ἀτερπής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀτερπής ἀτερπές

Structure: ἀτερπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: te/rpw

Sense

  1. unpleasing, joyless, melancholy, less attractive

Examples

  • κάλλουσ δὲ Ῥωμαϊκῆσ ἀπαγγελίασ καὶ τάχουσ αἰσθάνεσθαι καὶ μεταφορᾶσ ὀνομάτων καὶ ἁρμονίασ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων οἷσ ὁ λόγοσ ἀγάλλεται, χαρίεν μέν ἡγούμεθα καὶ οὐκ ἀτερπέσ· (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 2 3:3)
  • αὐλὸν μὲν γὰρ ἑτέρων ἑορτῶν καὶ στέφανον ἀφαιροῦμεν, θεοῦ δὲ θυσίᾳ μὴ παρόντοσ, ὥσπερ ἱερὸν δοχῆσ, ἄθεόν ἐστι καὶ ἀνεόρταστον καὶ ἀνενθουσίαστον τὸ λειπόμενον, μᾶλλον δ’ ὅλον ἀτερπὲσ αὐτῷ καὶ λυπηρόν· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 21 13:1)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἔργῳ γιγνομένη, κἂν ἀτερπὲσ ἔχῃ τὸ τέλοσ, οὐκ ἐξίσταται· (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 2 2:1)
  • μάλιστα δὲ ὁκόσοισι ἡ φύσισ ἐσ ξυνουσίην ἐτοίμη· ὀξύτατον ἠδὲ ἀτερπὲσ, ἠδὲ ἄκοσμον κακόν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 271)
  • Ὕδρωψ ἀτερπὲσ μὲν ἐσιδεῖν πάθοσ, χαλεπὸν δὲ καὶ παθεῖν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 1)

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

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