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ἄωρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄωρος ἄωρᾱ ἄωρον

Structure: ἀωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)ei/rw, cf. mete/wros

Sense

  1. pendulous, waving about

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ νὴ Δία τινὲσ ὑποτυγχάνοντεσ οὐκ ἐπὶ παντὶ θανάτῳ τὰ πένθη δεῖν οἰόνται γίγνεσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἀώροισ, διὰ τὸ μηδενὸσ τετυχηκέναι τῶν ἐν τῷ βίῳ νενομισμένων ἀγαθῶν, οἱο͂ν γάμου παιδείασ τελειότητοσπολιτείασ ἀρχῶν ταῦτα γὰρ εἶναι τὰ λυποῦντα μάλιστα τοὺσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἀώροισ ἀτυχοῦντασ, διὰ τὸ ἀφῃρῆσθαι πρὸ τοῦ δέοντοσ τῆσ ἐλπίδοσ, ἀγνοοῦντεσ ὅτι ὁ ἀώροσ θάνατοσ ὡσ· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 231)

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

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