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φλύαρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φλύαρος

Etym.: flu/w

Sense

  1. silly talk, foolery, nonsense
  2. a silly talker, tatler, babbler

Examples

  • αὗται γάρ τοι μόναι εἰσὶ θεαί, τἄλλα δὲ πάντ’ ἐστὶ φλύαροσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests6)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν πολλὰ τῶν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ παιζομένων διηγεῖσθαι πολὺσ ἂν εἰή φλύαροσ· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 29 3:1)
  • εἰ σὺ φλύαροσ εἶ καὶ πάντασ τοὺσ ἀπαντήσαντασ φίλουσ εἶναι δοκεῖσ, θέλεισ καὶ ἐμὲ ὅμοιόν σοι γενέσθαι; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 11:1)
  • ‐ Πρῶτον μὲν οὐδὲ σὺ ἐμοὶ πιστεύεισ, ἀλλὰ φλύαροσ εἶ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐδὲν δύνασαι κατασχεῖν. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 17:1)

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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