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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

  • ἄλλωσ καὶ ἡ φροντὶσ οὐκ ἀτερπὴσ ἔχουσά τινα διατριβήν. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 16:8)
  • "τέτλαθι δή, πενίη, καὶ ἀνάσχεο μωρολογούντων ὄψων γὰρ πλῆθόσ σε δαμᾷ καὶ λιμὸσ ἀτερπήσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1002)
  • ὡσ οὖν ὁ Λατῖνοσ ἀπήγγειλε τὴν ὄψιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ διηπόρουν ὅστισ ἦν ὁ τῆσ πομπῆσ τότε προηγούμενοσ ἀτερπὴσ καὶ κακὸσ ὀρχηστήσ, ἀνεμνήσθησαν ἔνιοι διὰ τὴν ἀτοπίαν τῆσ τιμωρίασ ἐκείνου τοῦ θεράποντοσ, ὃν μαστιγοῦντεσ ἐξήγαγον δι’ ἀγορᾶσ, εἶτ’ ἐθανάτωσαν. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 25 1:1)
  • νούσων δ’ ἑσμὸσ ἀπ’ ἀστῶν ἵζοι κρατὸσ ἀτερπήσ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 32)
  • Ἐξάνθρωποσ ἡ συμφορὴ, καὶ ἀτερπὴσ μὲν ἡ ὄψισ, ὀδυνηρὴ δὲ καὶ τῷ ὀρέοντι θέη· ἀνήκεστον δὲ τὸ δεινόν· ἀγνωσία δὲ ὑπὸ διαστροφῆσ καὶ τοῖσ φιλτάτοισ ἀνθρώποισ· εὐχὴ δὲ τοῖσι παρεοῦσι ἡ πρόσθεν οὐχ ὁσίη, νῦν ἀγαθὴ γίγνετα ι, ἀπελθέμεναι τοῦ βίου τὸν κάμνοντα, ἐσ ἀπαλλαγὴν ξὺν τῷ ζῆν καὶ τῶν πόνων καὶ τῶν ἀτερπέων κακῶν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 50)

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

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