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φόβος?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: phobos

Principal Part: φόβος φόβου

Structure: φοβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fear, terror, alarm, fright, panic
  2. The act of fleeing: flight, retreat
  3. awe, reverence
  4. That which causes fear: terror

Declension

Second 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

  • ἀνδρεία δ ἐστὶν ἀρετὴ τοῦ θυμοειδοῦς, καθ ἣν δυσέκπληκτοί εἰσιν ὑπὸ φόβων τῶν περὶ θάνατον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 9:1)
  • δειλία δ ἐστὶ κακία τοῦ θυμοειδοῦς, καθ ἣν ἐκπλήττονται ὑπὸ φόβων, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν περὶ θάνατον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 11:3)
  • δειλίας δ ἐστὶ τὸ ὑπὸ τῶν τυχόντων φόβων εὐκίνητον εἶναι, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν περὶ θάνατον καὶ τὰς σωματικὰς πηρώσεις, καὶ τὸ ὑπολαμβάνειν κρεῖττον εἶναι ὁπωσοῦν σωθῆναι ἢ τελευτῆσαι καλῶς. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 32:2)
  • - ἀλλὰ φόβων πίστις ἅδε πρώτα. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • "ἐμπαθεῖς πρὸς τὰ θεῖα δι ἐλπίδων ἅμα καὶ φόβων καταστήσαντες. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 31 1:8)
  • τὸν δράκοντα δέ, ὃς νῦν ἐξοιστρεῖ αὐτὴν φοβῶν, τὰ νεογνὰ ἐπειδὰν τεχθῇ, αὐτίκα μέτεισι καὶ τιμωρήσει τῇ μητρί. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, iris and poseidon, chapter 25)

Synonyms

  1. fear

  2. The act of fleeing

  3. awe

  4. That which causes fear

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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