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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

  • "ὦ βασιλεῦ, σύ με πεποίηκασ ἀτολμότερον, ἀπαλλάξασ ἐκείνων τῶν κακῶν δι’ ἃ τοῦ ζῆν ὠλιγώρουν. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 1 2:1)
  • διατάξασ δὲ τὸν ἀρχαῖον αὐτοὺσ τρόπον καὶ πάτριον κατὰ χιλιάρχουσ καὶ ταξιάρχουσ καὶ τοὺσ νεογάμουσ ἀπολύσασ καὶ τοὺσ τὰσ κτήσεισ νεωστὶ πεποιημένουσ, ὅπωσ μὴ διὰ τὴν τούτων ἀπόλαυσιν φιλοζωοῦντεσ ἀτολμότερον μάχωνται, καταστὰσ τοιούτοισ παρώρμα λόγοισ πρὸσ τὸν ἀγῶνα τοὺσ αὐτοῦ στρατιώτασ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 351:1)

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

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