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φλυαρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φλυαρία

Structure: φλυαρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from flua_re/w

Sense

  1. silly talk, nonsense, foolery, fooleries

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εὑρὼν γὰρ τὰσ Ἐπικούρου κυρίασ δόξασ, τὸ κάλλιστον, ὡσ οἶσθα, τῶν βιβλίων καὶ κεφαλαιώδη περιέχον τῆσ τἀνδρὸσ σοφίασ τὰ δόγματα, κομίσασ εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν μέσην ἔκαυσεν ἐπὶ ξύλων συκίνων ὡσ δῆθεν αὐτὸν καταφλέγων, καὶ τὴν σποδὸν εἰσ τὴν θάλασσαν ἐξέβαλεν, ἔτι καὶ χρησμὸν ἐπιφθεγξάμενοσ Πυρπολέειν κέλομαι δόξασ ἀλαοῖο γέροντοσ οὐκ εἰδὼσ ὁ κατάρατοσ ὅσων ἀγαθῶν τὸ βιβλίον ἐκεῖνο τοῖσ ἐντυχοῦσιν αἴτιον γίγνεται, καὶ ὅσην αὐτοῖσ εἰρήνην καὶ ἀταραξίαν καὶ ἐλευθερίαν ἐνεργάζεται, δειμάτων μὲν καὶ φασμάτων καὶ τεράτων ἀπαλλάττον καὶ ἐλπίδων ματαίων καὶ περιττῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν, νοῦν δὲ καὶ ἀλήθειαν ἐντιθὲν καὶ καθαῖρον ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τὰσ γνώμασ, οὐχ ὑπὸ δᾳδὶ καὶ σκίλλῃ καὶ ταῖσ τοιαύταισ φλυαρίαισ, ἀλλὰ λόγῳ ὀρθῷ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ παρρησίᾳ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 47:2)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ αἱ στρατεῖαι παρατάξεισ ἀεὶ καὶ μάχασ καὶ πολιορκίασ ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ θυσίασ ἔστιν ὅτε καὶ συνουσίασ διὰ μέσου καὶ σχολὴν ἄφθονον ἐν παιδιαῖσ καὶ φλυαρίαισ δέχονται. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 6 12:3)

Synonyms

  1. silly talk

Related

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

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