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ἐλαφρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαφρός ἐλαφρή ἐλαφρόν

Structure: ἐλαφρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)lafro/s

Sense

  1. lightly, buoyantly
  2. light to bear, not burdensome, easy, light, easy, light
  3. light in moving, nimble, active, light troops
  4. lightminded, thoughtless

Examples

  • οὐκ ἂν ἐπ’ ἐμῆσ γε νεότητοσ, ὅτ’ ἐγὼ φέρων ἀνθράκων φορτίον ἠκολούθουν Φαύ̈λλῳ τρέχων, ὧδε φαύλωσ ἂν ὁ σπονδοφόροσ οὗτοσ ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ τότε διωκόμενοσ ἐξέφυγεν οὐδ’ ἂν ἐλαφρῶσ ἂν ἀπεπλίξατο. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parodos, strophe 13)
  • Ἀνακρέων καλλίκομοι κοῦραι Διὸσ ὠρχήσαντ’ ἐλαφρῶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 37 3:2)
  • ὅπου καὶ πενίαν καὶ φυγὴν καὶ γῆρασ ἐλαφρῶσ καὶ προσηνῶσ πρὸσ εὐκολίαν καὶ πραότητα τρόπου φέρουσιν. (Plutarch, De virtute et vitio, chapter, section 1 4:2)
  • ὁ δὲ νικήσασ ἐζημίωσεν ἐλαφρῶσ ἤτοι κάμμασιν ἢ καμματίσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 18 2:3)
  • πρὸσ πάντασ δὴ τούτουσ τοὺσ θανάτουσ ἐλαφρῶσ ἑκτέον, εἰδότασ ὅτι τὴν μοῖραν οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκφυγεῖν πεπαιδευμένων δ’ ἐστὶν ἀνθρώπων προσειληφέναι ὅτι βραχὺν χρόνον προειλήφασιν ἡμᾶσ οἱ δοκοῦντεσ ἀώροι τοῦ ζῆν ἐστερῆσθαι· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 31 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. light to bear

  2. light in moving

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

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