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φθιτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθιτός φθιτή φθιτόν

Structure: φθιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fqi/nw의 분사형

Sense

  1. the dead
  2. liable to perish

Examples

  • τὰ γὰρ φθιτῶν τοῖσ ὁρῶσι κόσμοσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 33)
  • πῶσ γάρ, ὁ μὲν παρὰ θεοῖσ, ὁ δὲ παρὰ τοῖσ φθιτοῖσ ὤν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 8:4)
  • αἲ Λίνον μὲν ἐπ’ εὐτυχεῖ μολπᾷ Φοῖβοσ ἰαχεῖ τὸν κάλλει φθιτόν, κιθάραν ἐλαύνων πλήκτρῳ χρυσέῳ· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, strophe 11)
  • αἰαῖ, τίνα στεναγμὸν ἢ γόον ἢ φθιτῶν ᾠδάν, ἢ τὸν Αἵδα χορὸν ἀχήσω; (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric8)
  • τοὺσ οὖν πάλαι σοφοὺσ καὶ λογίουσ ἄμικτα θέσθαι τὰ ἐπίγεια καὶ τὰ οὐράνια χρὴ νομίζειν, οὐ τοῖσ τόποισ ὥσπερ ἐπὶ ζυγοῦ πρὸσ τὰ κάτω καὶ ἄνω βλέποντασ, ἀλλὰ τῇ διαφορᾷ τῶν δυνάμεων τὰ μὲν θερμὰ καὶ λαμπρὰ καὶ ταχέα καὶ κοῦφα τῇ θείᾳ καὶ ἀιδίῳ φύσει προσνέμοντασ, τὰ δὲ σκοτεινὰ καὶ ψυχρὰ καὶ βραδέα φθιτῶν καὶ ἐνέρων οὐκ εὐδαίμονα κλῆρον ἀποφαίνοντασ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 221)

Synonyms

  1. the dead

  2. liable to perish

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

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