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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ Καίσαροσ αὑτοῦ μὲν ἐμπεφυκότοσ τοῖσ στρατεύμασιν ἐν Γαλατίᾳ καὶ τῶν ὅπλων ἐχομένου, δώροισ δὲ καὶ χρήμασι καὶ φίλοισ μάλιστα πρὸσ τὴν ἐν τῇ πόλει χρωμένου δύναμιν, ἤδη μὲν αἱ Κάτωνοσ προαγορεύσεισ ἀνέφερον τὸν Πομπήϊον ἐκ πολλῆσ ἤδη τῆσ πρόσθεν ἀπιστίασ ὀνειροπολοῦντα τὸ δεινόν, ἔτι δὲ ἦν ὄκνου καὶ μελλήσεωσ ἀτόλμου πρὸσ τὸ κωλύειν καὶ ἐπιχειρεῖν ὑπόπλεωσ, ὡρ́μησεν ὁ Κάτων ὑπατείαν παραγγέλλειν ὡσ ἀφαιρησόμενοσ εὐθὺσ τὰ ὅπλα τοῦ Καίσαροσ ἢ τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν ἐξελέγξων. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 49 1:1)

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

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