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βάναυσος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάναυσος βάναυση βάναυσον

Structure: βαναυς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. mechanical, a mechanic
  2. a mere mechanical, base, ignoble

Examples

  • τὸ μὲν δὴ ταῖσ βαναύσοισ τέχναισ παραβάλλειν αὐτὴν ἀνόητόν ἐστιν, καὶ μᾶλλόν πωσ καθαιροῦντοσ τὸ ἀξίωμα τῆσ τέχνησ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 26:3)
  • ταῦτα μὲν γὰρ ἴσωσ Ἀλκαμένει καὶ Νησιώτῃ καὶ Ἰκτίνῳ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ βαναύσοισ καὶ χειρώναξι τὸ δύνασθαι λέγειν ἀπομνυμένοισ δοτέον ἀποδιδράσκειν· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 5 11:1)
  • ὁρᾶν τε γὰρ ἔν τε ταῖσ τέχναισ ταῖσ βαναύσοισ καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν ὀξυχειρίαν τοὺσ τεχνίτασ ἀπὸ τῆσ μελέτησ περιπεποιημένουσ τούσ τ’ αὐλητὰσ καὶ τοὺσ ἀθλητὰσ ὅσον ὑπερφέρουσιν ἑκάτεροι τῇ ἰδίᾳ πονήσει τῇ συνεχεῖ, καὶ ὡσ οὗτοι εἰ μετήνεγκαν τὴν ἄσκησιν καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχήν, οὐκ ἂν ἀνωφελῶσ καὶ ἀτελῶσ ἐμόχθουν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 51:5)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἐκ τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ βαναύσοισ φέρειν προσέταξε τὰ βέλη καὶ παραβάλλειν ἔξω παρὰ τὸν θεμέλιον τοῦ τείχουσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 40 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. mechanical

  2. a mere mechanical

Related

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

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