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ἄψορρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄψορρος

Structure: ἀψορρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for a)yo/rros

Sense

  1. going back, backwards, backward, back again

Examples

  • ἄψορροι δὴ ἔπειτα πρὸσ ἠῶ τ’ ἠέλιόν τε ἔπλεον· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 27:18)
  • αὐτοὶ δέ, Διὸσ περικαλλέα τέκνα, ἄψορροι πρὸσ Ὄλυμπον ἀγάννιφον ἐρρώσαντο τερπόμενοι φόρμιγγι· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 52:2)
  • εἰ δέ κεν ἀντικρὺ πταμένη μεσσηγὺσ ὄληται, ἄψορροι στέλλεσθαι ἐπεὶ πολὺ βέλτερον εἶξαι ἀθανάτοισ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 6:11)
  • τῇ δὲ καὶ αὐτόματοι θυρέων ἱπόειξαν ὀχῆεσ, ὠκείαισ ἄψορροι ἀναθρώσκοντεσ ἀοιδαῖσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 1:23)
  • τὼ μὲν ἄρ’ ἄψορροι προτὶ Ἴλιον ἀπονέοντο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 38:3)

Synonyms

  1. going back

Related

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

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