Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φλαῦρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φλαῦρος φλαῦρᾱ φλαῦρον

Structure: φλαυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: collat. form of fau=los

Sense

  1. petty, paltry, trivial
  2. paltry, sorry, indifferent, bad, a mischief, disparagingly
  3. useless
  4. the meanest or weakest, the least serviceable part
  5. shabby, plain
  6. bad
  7. ill, ill off, badly, ill

Examples

  • εὐφημεῖν χρὴ καὶ μὴ φλαῦρον μηδὲν γρύζειν ἀλλ’ ὀλολύζειν· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests11)
  • ἀλλὰ νυνὶ σπένδομαί σοι, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν οὐκέτι οὔτε δράσω φλαῦρον οὐδὲν οὔθ’ ὑφ’ ὑμῶν πείσομαι. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees26)
  • οὐ παρασκευαζόμεσθα τῶν πολιτῶν οὐδέν’ ὦνδρεσ φλαῦρον εἰπεῖν οὐδὲ ἕν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, strophe 11)
  • εὐστόμει καὶ μηδὲν εἴπῃσ φλαῦρον ἄνδρασ δεξιοὺσ καὶ νοῦν ἔχοντασ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics24)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄν με φλαῦρον ἐργάσαισθ’ ἔτι, οἱο͂σ ἐμοὶ τρέφεται τοῖσδ’ ἐνὶ δώμασι παῖσ, ἀμφήκει γλώττῃ λάμπων, πρόβολοσ ἐμόσ, σωτὴρ δόμοισ, ἐχθροῖσ βλάβη, λυσανίασ πατρῴων μεγάλων κακῶν· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, lyric3)
  • καίτοι, ὦ Δημ[όκρα]τεσ, μόνῳ σοι οὐκ [ἔνι λέγ]ειν περὶ τοῦ δήμου [φλα]ῦρον οὐδέν· (Hyperides, Speeches, 10:3)

Synonyms

  1. petty

  2. paltry

  3. useless

  4. shabby

  5. bad

Related

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

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