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βάραθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάραθρον βαράθρου

Structure: βαραθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. gulf, cleft, pit (especially one at Athens behind the acropolis into which criminals were thrown)
  2. ruin, perdition
  3. glutton, spendthrift

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • θυσίασ συνόδουσ, πέπαυκε δὲ τοὺσ ἀρχαιρεσιάζοντασ καὶ ψηφοφοροῦντασ καὶ περὶ τῶν κοινῶν ἐκκλησιάζοντασ, ἀναγκάζει δ’ ὅσα δούλουσ ἀργυρωνήτουσ ταλαιπωρεῖν λατομοῦντασ ὑλοτομοῦντασ ἀχθοφοροῦντασ, ἐν ταρτάροισ καὶ βαράθροισ δαπανωμένουσ, ἀνάπαυσιν τῶν κακῶν οὐδὲ τὴν ἐλαχίστην λαμβάνοντασ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 81 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. glutton

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