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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

  • νῦν δὲ εἰ ἔτι προβήσεται ἡ ἡλικία, οἶδ’ ὅτι ἀνάγκη ἔσται τὰ τοῦ γήρωσ ἐπιτελεῖσθαι καὶ ὁρᾶν τε χεῖρον καὶ ἀκούειν ἧττον καὶ δυσμαθέστερον εἶναι καὶ ὧν ἔμαθον ἐπιλησμονέστερον. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 7:1)
  • εἰ δὲ βιώσομαι πλείω χρόνον, ἴσωσ ἀναγκαῖον ἔσται τὰ τοῦ γήρωσ ἐπιτελεῖσθαι καὶ ὁρᾶν τε καὶ ἀκούειν ἧττον καὶ διανοεῖσθαι χεῖρον καὶ δυσμαθέστερον ἀποβαίνειν καὶ ἐπιλησμονέστερον, καὶ ὧν πρότερον βελτίων ἦν, τούτων χείρω γίγνεσθαι· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 8 9:1)

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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