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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

  • ἄτιμον εἰλήφει σχῆμα, τῶν ἑαυτῆσ ἐκπεσοῦσα ἀγαθῶν, ἡ δὲ ἔκ τινων βαράθρων τῆσ Ἀσίασ ἐχθὲσ καὶ πρῴην ἀφικομένη, Μυσὴ ἢ Φρυγία τισ ἢ Καρικόν τι κακόν, Ἑλληνίδασ ἠξίου διοικεῖν πόλεισ ἀπελάσασα τῶν κοινῶν τὴν ἑτέραν, ἡ ἀμαθὴσ τὴν φιλόσοφον καὶ ἡ μαινομένη τὴν σώφρονα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 1 2:1)
  • ἐκεῖθεν δὲ ὑπὸ Μενεσθέωσ ἐξελαθεὶσ πρὸσΛυκομήδην ἦλθεν, ὃσ αὐτὸν βάλλει κατὰ βαράθρων καὶ ἀποκτείνει. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 1 41:3)
  • Κασάνδρασ δὲ λεγούσησ ἔνοπλον ἐν αὐτῷ δύναμιν εἶναι, καὶ προσέτι Λαοκόωντοσ τοῦ μάντεωσ, τοῖσ μὲν ἐδόκει κατακαίειν, τοῖσ δὲ κατὰ βαράθρων ἀφιέναι· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 5 27:1)
  • τῶν βαράθρων δὲ <τῶν> ἐν τοῖσ εἰρημένοισ πεποιημένων ὄρεσιν ἀπωτέρω πεντήκοντά που σταδίοισ ἐστὶν ἡ πόλισ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 7:1)
  • καὶ πόσων κρημνῶν καὶ βαράθρων ταῦτ’ ἄξια; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 23:4)

Synonyms

  1. glutton

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