φόβος?
Second declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration: phobos
Principal Part:
φόβος
φόβου
Structure:
φοβ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- fear, terror, alarm, fright, panic
- The act of fleeing: flight, retreat
- awe, reverence
- 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.
- 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
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fear
- τάρβος (fright, alarm, terror)
-
The act of fleeing
- φυγή (flight, retreat, escape)
-
awe
- τάρβος (awe, reverence, for)
- ἄγος (awe, reverence, dread)
-
That which causes fear