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ἐπιλήσμων

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιλήσμων ἐπιλήσμον

Structure: ἐπιλησμων (Stem)

Etym.: e)pilh/qomai

Sense

  1. apt to forget, forgetful

Examples

  • μὰ τὴν Ἀναπνοὴν μὰ τὸ Χάοσ μὰ τὸν Αἔρα οὐκ εἶδον οὕτωσ ἄνδρ’ ἄγροικον οὐδένα οὐδ’ ἄπορον οὐδὲ σκαιὸν οὐδ’ ἐπιλήσμονα· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene1)
  • σὺ δὴ οὖν, ὦ Ἱππία, πότερον οὕτωσ ἐπιλήσμονα οἰεί εἶναι τὸν τῆσ Θέτιδόσ τε καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ σοφωτάτου Χείρωνοσ πεπαιδευμένον, ὥστε ὀλίγον πρότερον λοιδοροῦντα τοὺσ ἀλαζόνασ τῇ ἐσχάτῃ λοιδορίᾳ αὐτὸν παραχρῆμα πρὸσ μὲν τὸν Ὀδυσσέα φάναι ἀποπλευσεῖσθαι, πρὸσ δὲ τὸν Αἰάντα μενεῖν, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐπιβουλεύοντά τε καὶ ἡγούμενον ἀρχαῖον εἶναι τὸν Ὀδυσσέα καὶ αὐτοῦ αὐτῷ τούτῳ τῷ τεχνάζειν τε καὶ ψεύδεσθαι περιέσεσθαι; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 51:2)
  • καίτοι οὐκ ἂν πρέποι γε ἐπιλήσμονα εἶναι ῥαψῳδὸν ἄνδρα. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 58:4)
  • ἐπιλήσμονα ἄρα ψυχὴν ἐν ταῖσ ἱκανῶσ φιλοσόφοισ μή ποτε ἐγκρίνωμεν, ἀλλὰ μνημονικὴν αὐτὴν ζητῶμεν δεῖν εἶναι. (Plato, Republic, book 6 79:1)

Synonyms

  1. apt to forget

Related

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

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