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ἥσυχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἥσυχος ἥσυχη ἥσυχον

Structure: ἡσυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. still, quiet, at rest, at ease, at leisure, quietly
  2. quiet, gentle, quiet, quietness
  3. gently, cautiously

Examples

  • ἀνάβασισ ἀμμώδησ ἐν ποσὶ πρεσβυτέρου, οὕτωσ γυνὴ γλωσσώδησ ἀνδρὶ ἡσύχῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 25:20)
  • ὦ φίλταται γυναῖκεσ, ἡσύχῳ ποδὶ χωρεῖτε, μὴ ψοφεῖτε, μηδ’ ἔστω κτύποσ. (Euripides, episode 7:1)
  • πάλιν κατάστηθ’ ἡσύχῳ μὲν ὄμματι, χρόᾳ δ’ ἀδήλῳ τῶν δεδραμένων πέρι· (Euripides, episode, iambic7)
  • Σωσικράτησ δὲ Φιλαδέλφοισ ἐπὶ πλοίου, λεπτὴ δὲ κυρτοῖσ ἐγγελῶσα κύμασιν αὔρα, κόρη Σκίρωνοσ,2 ἡσύχῳ ποδὶ προσῆγε πρᾴωσ καὶ καλῶσ τὸν κάνθαρον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 481)
  • δι’ ὤτων δὲ συν‐ τέτραινε μῦθον ἡσύχῳ φρενῶν βάσει. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 81)

Synonyms

  1. still

  2. quiet

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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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