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ἔμφρων

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμφρων ἔμφρονος

Structure: ἐμφρων (Stem)

Etym.: e)n, frh/n

Sense

  1. in one's mind or senses
  2. alive
  3. rational, intelligent
  4. sensible, shrewd, prudent

Declension

Third 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

  • ὅσαι δὲ ἀνθρώπουσ δεδίασιν καὶ ὑπὸ ψόφου ἐκπλήσσονται καὶ θορυβώδεισ εἰσὶν καὶ ἐπὶ πολλὰ καὶ εἰκῇ κινοῦνται [ ‐ καὶ ταῦτα ἀλογίστων ἐστὶν καὶ οὐκ ἐμφρόνων ‐ ], καθάπερ ἄνθρωποι οἱ δειλοὶ καὶ ἔκφρονεσ, οὕτω δὲ καὶ αἱ κύνεσ αἱ τοιαῦται οὔποτε ἂν εἰε͂ν γενναῖαι. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 7 3:3)
  • πίνειν δ’ εἰσ μέθην φησὶν ἐν ἕκτῳ Νόμων Πλάτων, ’ οὔτε ἄλλοθί που πρέπει πλὴν ἐν ταῖσ τοῦ τὸν οἶνον δόντοσ θεοῦ ἑορταῖσ οὐδ’ ἀσφαλέσ, οὔτ’ οὖν περὶ γάμουσ ἐσπουδακότα, ἐν οἷσ ἔμφρονα εἶναι πρέπει μάλιστα νύμφην καὶ νυμφίον μεταβολὴν βίου οὐ μικρὰν μεταλλάττοντασ, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὸ γεννώμενον ὅπωσ ὅτι μάλιστα ἐξ ἐμφρόνων αἰεὶ γίγνηται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 391)
  • ἀλλ’ αὐλητὴσ αὐλοὺσ οὐδενὸσ ἀξίουσ ἔχων ἢ κιθαριστὴσ λύραν ἢ τοξότησ τόξον ἢ ἄλλοσ ὁστισοῦν συλλήβδην τῶν δημιουργῶν ἢ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ἐμφρόνων ἀνδρῶν μηδενὸσ ἄξια ὄργανα ἢ ἄλλην παρασκευὴν ἡντιναοῦν ἔχων ἀπὸ τούτων οἰέται κερδαίνειν; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 9:4)
  • ταῦτα γὰρ ἅπαντα οἱ μὲν φύσιν, οἱ δὲ σοφίαν, οἱ δὲ ἀγχίνοιαν θήσουσιν φύσεωσ, σοφὸν δὲ ὄντωσ οὐδενὶ τούτων οὐδεὶσ τῶν ἐμφρόνων ἐθελήσει ποτὲ καλεῖν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 25:1)
  • διὸ θαρροῦντα χρὴ ταῦτα εἰσ νόμουσ θέσθαι ‐ τὸ γὰρ μὴ τίμια τὰ θεῖα εἶναι, τὰ δὲ τίμια, σαφῶσ οὐκ ἐμφρόνων ‐ ὅτι δὲ οὐκ ὀνόματα ἔσχηκεν, τήν γε αἰτίαν χρὴ λέγεσθαι ταύτην. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 96:2)

Synonyms

  1. in one's mind or senses

  2. alive

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

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