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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

  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ ἴσασίν γε καὶ μέμνηνται οἱ τότε ὑμῖν ἐπιστάντεσ καὶ σὲ μὲν ἐσ γόνυ συγκαθήμενον ἰδόντεσ, ἐκεῖνον δὲ οἶσθα ὅ τι καὶ ποιοῦντα, εἰ μὴ παντάπασιν ἐπιλήσμων τισ εἶ. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 17:3)
  • ἐὰν δ’ ὀφείλω, σχέτλιοσ, ἐπιλήσμων πάνυ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode8)
  • 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)
  • οἴδασι δὲ οἱ ἀρχαῖοι καὶ τὰ νῦν καλούμενα ἀπὸ σπυρίδοσ δεῖπνα, ἐμφανίζει δὲ Φερεκράτησ περὶ τούτων ἐν Ἐπιλήσμονι ἢ Θαλάττῃ οὕτωσ συσκευασάμενοσ δεῖπνον ἐσ τὸ σπυρίδιον ἐβάδιζεν ὡσ πρὸσ Ὠφελίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 68 1:8)
  • νῦν γὰρ πεινῶν δεινῶσ πώσ εἰμ’ ἐπιλήσμων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 34 3:2)
  • ἐπιλήσμων εἶ, ἔφη, ὦ θαυμάσιε, ὁ Αἰμιλιανόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 100 2:1)
  • ἐπιλήσμων μεντ ἂν εἰήν, ὦ Ἀγάθων, εἰπεῖν τὸν Σωκράτη, εἰ ἰδὼν τὴν σὴν ἀνδρείαν καὶ μεγαλοφροσύνην ἀναβαίνοντοσ ἐπὶ τὸν ὀκρίβαντα μετὰ τῶν ὑποκριτῶν, καὶ βλέψαντοσ ἐναντία τοσούτῳ θεάτρῳ, μέλλοντοσ ἐπιδείξεσθαι σαυτοῦ λόγουσ, καὶ οὐδ’ ὁπωστιοῦν ἐκπλαγέντοσ, νῦν οἰηθείην σε θορυβήσεσθαι ἕνεκα ἡμῶν ὀλίγων ἀνθρώπων. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section6)

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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