Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐτώσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐτώσιος ἐτώσιον

Structure: ἐτωσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)to/s adv.

Sense

  1. fruitless, useless, unprofitable

Examples

  • ἢν δ’ ἔτι λυπῇσ, χρῆμα μὲν οὐ πρήξεισ, σὺ δ’ ἐτώσια πόλλ’ ἀγορεύσεισ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 46:10)
  • οὐκ ἂν τώ γ’ ἐρίσαντε ἐν αὔλακι κὰμ μὲν ἄροτρον ἄξειαν, τὸ δὲ ἔργον ἐτώσιον αὖθι λίποιεν. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:17)
  • τὰ μὲν οὔ τι ἐτώσια ἔκφυγε χειρόσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 22:3)
  • "γένοσ γάρ τι ἀνθρώπων ἐστὶν οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ τῷ βίῳ ἐπιπολάσαν ἀργὸν φιλόνεικον κενόδοξον ὀξύχολον ὑπόλιχνον ὑπόμωρον τετυφωμένον ὕβρεωσ ἀνάπλεων καὶ ἵνα καθ’ Ὅμηρον εἴπω ’ ἐτώσιον ἄχθοσ ἀρούρησ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 29:2)
  • καὶ λέγει περιπαθῶν ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ ἀσχάλλων αὐτόσ, ἀλλ’ ἧμαι παρὰ νηυσὶν ἐτώσιον ἄχθοσ ἀρούρησ. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 2 3:1)
  • τῷ δ’ ἐγὼ ἄλλον ὀιστὸν ἀπὸ νευρῆσ προϊάλλον ἀσχαλόων, ὅ μοι ὁ πρὶν ἐτώσιοσ ἔκφυγε χειρόσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 99)

Synonyms

  1. fruitless

Related

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

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