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μάργος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάργος μάργη μάργον

Structure: μαργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. raging mad, madman!
  2. greedy, gluttonous
  3. lewd, lustful

Examples

  • ἔτι δ’ ἔγωγ’, εἰ μὴ μέλλοιμι δόξειν παίζειν, φαίην ἂν δεῖν καὶ τὰσ φερούσασ ἐν γαστρὶ πασῶν τῶν γυναικῶν μάλιστα θεραπεύειν ἐκεῖνον τὸν ἐνιαυτόν, ὅπωσ μήτε ἡδοναῖσ τισι πολλαῖσ ἅμα καὶ μάργοισ προσχρήσεται ἡ κύουσα μήτε αὖ λύπαισ, τὸ δὲ ἵλεων καὶ εὐμενὲσ πρᾷόν τε τιμῶσα διαζήσει τὸν τότε χρόνον. (Plato, Laws, book 7 29:2)

Synonyms

  1. raging mad

  2. greedy

  3. lewd

Related

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

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