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γαῦρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γαῦρος

Structure: γαυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gai/w

Sense

  1. exulting in, haughty, disdainful, skittish

Declension

First/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

  • ἀλλ’ ἡ φρόνησισ τοῦ θεοῦ μεῖζον σθένειν ζητεῖ, τὸ γαῦρον δ’ ἐν φρεσὶν κεκτημένοι δοκοῦμεν εἶναι δαιμόνων σοφώτεροι. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 3:9)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτω γαῦρόν ἐσθ’ ὡσ Ἡρακλῆσ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue, iambics19)
  • "ὅτι τῶν ἄλλων ὁ ἐρωτικὸσ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἁπάντων περιφρονῶν, οὐ μόνον ἑταίρων καὶ οἰκείων, ἀλλὰ καὶ νόμων καὶ ἀρχόντων καὶ βασιλέων, φοβούμενοσ δὲ μηδὲν μηδὲ θαυμάζων μηδὲ θεραπεύων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν αἰχματὰν κεραυνὸν οἱο͂σ ὢν ὑπομένειν, ἅμα τῷ τὸν καλὸν ἰδεῖν ἔπτηξ’ ἀλέκτωρ δοῦλον ὣσ κλίνασ πτερόν, καὶ τὸ θράσοσ ἐκκέκλασται καὶ κατακέκοπται οἱ τὸ τῆσ ψυχῆσ γαῦρον. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 18 2:2)
  • νοσήματα καὶ πάθη, τὸ δὲ γαῦρον ἐνίοισ ὅμωσ καὶ ὑψηλὸν καὶ διηρμένον ἔνεστιν ὑπὸ κουφότητοσ, δραστηρίου δ’ ὁρμῆσ οὐδὲν ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν ἀπεστέρηται. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 32)
  • τὸ δὲ τῶν Αἰολέων ἦθοσ ἔχει τὸ γαῦρον καὶ ὀγκῶδεσ, ἔτι δὲ ὑπόχαυνον ὁμολογεῖ δὲ ταῦτα ταῖσ ἱπποτροφίαισ αὐτῶν καὶ ξενοδοχίαισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 19 2:1)

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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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