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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

  • 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)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐκ μέσων ἀναβοάτω τῶν γυναικῶν ὀξύτερον καὶ ἀκρατέστερον, λευκὸσ ἰδεῖν καὶ τρυφερόσ, αἰθρίασ καὶ πόνων ἄπειροσ, ἀποκλίνων τὸν τράχηλον, ὑγροῖσ τοῖσ ὄμμασι μάχλον ὑποβλέπων, ἀεί ποτε τὸ σῶμα καταθεώμενοσ, τῇ ψυχῇ δὲ οὐδὲν προσέχων οὐδὲ τοῖσ ὑπ’ αὐτῆσ προσταττομένοισ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 130:1)

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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