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ἰάσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰάσιμος ἰάσιμον

Structure: ἰασιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: i)a/omai

Sense

  1. to be cured, curable, appeasable

Examples

  • οὐ μικρὸν δὲ πρὸσ εὐθυμίαν ὄφελοσ, ἂν ἰάσιμον ᾖ τὸ χεῖρον, καὶ κουφότερον καὶ ἄσφυκτον ὄν. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 1 1:3)
  • οὐ μικρὸν δὲ πρὸσ εὐθυμίαν ὄφελοσ, ἂν ἰάσιμον τὸ χεῖρον καὶ κουφότερον καὶ ἄσφυκτον. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 1 5:2)
  • λύπη μάλιστά γ’ ἡ διαφθείρουσά με ‐ δεινὴ γὰρ ἡ θεόσ, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ ἰάσιμοσ. (Euripides, episode, iambic 3:21)
  • ἰάσιμον γὰρ τὸ πάθοσ ἐστί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 30 1:11)
  • καὶ νοσήματ’ οὐκ ἰάσιμα, αὑτούσ τ’ ἀνῃρήκασι διὰ λύπην τινέσ τὸ μὲν οὖν ἀλγεῖν καὶ δάκνεσθαι τελευτήσαντοσ υἱοῦ φυσικὴν ἔχει τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆσ λύπησ, καὶ οὐκ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 2 4:1)
  • ἀποσφαλεὶσ φρενῶν πλανᾷ, κακὸσ δ’ ἰατρὸσ ὥσ τισ ἐσ νόσον πεσὼν ἀθυμεῖσ καὶ σεαυτὸν οὐκ ἔχεισ εὑρεῖν ὁποίοισ φαρμάκοισ ἰάσιμοσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 4:2)
  • καὶ τοῦτο κατιδὼν ἀπέπεμψεν εἰσ Τάρταρον, ἐπισημηνάμενοσ, ἐάντε ἰάσιμοσ ἐάντε ἀνίατοσ δοκῇ εἶναι· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 483:4)

Synonyms

  1. to be cured

Related

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

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