Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄτολμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτολμος

Structure: ἀτολμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: to/lma

Sense

  1. daring nothing, wanting courage, spiritless, cowardly, unenterprising, retiring, not having the heart

Examples

  • ἐν πλήθει δὲ εἰπεῖν ἀτολμότατόσ ἐστι καὶ τὴν φωνὴν ἰδιώτησ καὶ μιξοβάρβαροσ, ὥστε γέλωτα ὀφλισκάνειν διὰ τοῦτο ἐν ταῖσ συνουσίαισ, οὐ συνείρων ἀλλὰ βατταρίζων καὶ ταραττόμενοσ, καὶ μάλιστα ὁπόταν οὕτωσ ἔχων καὶ καλλιρρημοσύνην ἐπιδείκνυσθαι βούληται. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 27:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἦν, ὡσ λέγουσι, πρὸσ πολιτείαν καὶ τοὺσ ἐν ὄχλοισ θορύβουσ ὑπὸ φιλοδοξίασ ἀτολμότατοσ, καὶ τὸ παρὰ τὰσ μάχασ ἀνέκπληκτον καὶ στάσιμον ἐν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ ἀπέλειπεν αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τῶν τυχόντων ἐπαίνων καὶ ψόγων ἐξιστάμενον. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 28 2:1)

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

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