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μάχλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάχλος μάχλον

Structure: μαχλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. lewd, lustful
  2. wanton, luxuriant, insolent

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

  • καὶ μικροῦ ὁ νεανίασ ἐν τῇ πρὸσ τὴν Χίμαιραν συμπλοκῇ διεφθάρη ἐπιτίμιον σωφροσύνησ ὑποσχὼν καὶ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸν ξένον αἰδοῦσ ὑπὸ μάχλου γυναικὸσ ἐπιβεβουλευμένοσ. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 26:3)
  • οὕτωσ ἄρα ὁ Ποδαλείριοσ μάχλοσ καὶ γυναικομανὴσ τὴν φύσιν, ὡσ ἀπὸ Τρίκκησ μέχρι Παφλαγονίασ στύεσθαι ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου μητέρα. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 11:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ μὰ τὸν Ζεῦν, οὐ μὰ τοὺσ κάτω κούρουσ, οὐκ ἦν ἐσ ἄνδρασ μάχλοσ οὐδὲ δημώδησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 13 1:3)
  • "καὶ διακληρουμένων ἡ μὲν σκυθρωπὴ οὖσα κατὰ τὸν βίον καὶ σεμνότητοσ πλήρησ τὸν Ἐριφύλησ ὁρ́μον, ἡ δὲ ὡρ́ᾳ διαφέρουσα καὶ μάχλοσ οὖσα τὸν τῆσ Ἑλένησ ἔλαχε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1935)
  • μήποτε πυρίφατον γᾶν Πελασγίαν πόλιν τὸν ἄκορον βοᾶσ, κτίσαι μάχλον Ἄπη, τὸν ἀρότοισ θερί‐ ζοντα βροτοὺσ ἐν ἄλλοισ, οὕνεκ’ ᾤκτισαν ἡμᾶσ, ψῆφον δ’ εὔφρον’ ἔθεντο, αἰδοῦνται δ’ ἱκέτασ Διόσ, ποίμναν τάνδ’ ἀμέγαρτον· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 12)
  • οὐ γάρ, μὰ τὸν Ζῆν’ οὐδὲ τοὺσ κάτω Κούρουσ, οὐκ ἦν ἐσ ἄνδρασ μάχλοσ οὐδὲ δημώδησ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 345 1:1)
  • ἑτέραν δὲ γυναῖκα τύραννον Σεμίραμιν, ὅτι πρεσβυτέρα τὴν ἡλικίαν οὖσα καὶ μάχλοσ ἠνάγκαζε συγγίγνεσθαί τινασ ἑαυτῇ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 47:2)

Synonyms

  1. lewd

  2. wanton

Related

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

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