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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

  • ἐπὶ δὲ τῆσ γυναικὸσ ταύτησ εἰκότωσ καὶ ἀτολμότερόσ εἰμι· (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 2:4)
  • καὶ πρὸσ μὲν εὐθυμαχίαν οὐδενὸσ ἀτολμότεροσ τῶν καθ’ ἑαυτὸν ἡγεμόνων, ὅσα δὲ κλωπείασ ἐν πολέμοισ ἔργα καὶ πλεονεξίασ περὶ τόπουσ ἐχυροὺσ καὶ διαβάσεισ τάχουσ δεομένασ ἀπάτησ τε καὶ ψευδῶν ἐν δέοντι, σοφιστὴσ δεινότατοσ. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 10 2:2)

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

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