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μωρία?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: mōria

Principal Part: μωρία

Structure: μωρι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: μῶρος

Sense

  1. silliness, folly, folly, it, what folly!

Declension

First 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

  • γενναιότης σοι, μωρία δ ἔνεστί τις. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 4:10)
  • μωρία καὶ κακία τὰ τοιαῦτ ἐλπίζειν, καὶ κακῶς βουλευομένους καὶ μηδὲν ὧν προσήκει ποιεῖν ἐθέλοντας, ἀλλὰ τῶν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐχθρῶν λεγόντων ἀκροωμένους, τηλικαύτην ἡγεῖσθαι πόλιν οἰκεῖν τὸ μέγεθος ὥστε <μηδέν>, μηδ ἂν ὁτιοῦν ᾖ, δεινὸν πείσεσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 81:1)
  • εἶτα καὶ πόση μωρία, λέγονθ ὡς ἐπεβούλευον ἀτιμῶσαι καὶ τὰ ἔσχατα πρᾶξαι, οἰκέτῃ με ταῦτα προστάξαι γεγραφέναι, ἃ οὐδὲ πολίτης πολίτην δύναιτ ἂν ποιῆσαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 35:1)
  • αἰσχύνη δὲ καὶ μωρία πολλὴ πρῶτον ἀναστάντα μὴ οὐχ ἃ δεῖ πρῶτον ἐπανορθώσασθαι λέγειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 9 3:6)
  • ὥστε τά γε δὴ κατ οὐρανὸν ὑπ ἄλλου του φάναι γεγονέναι, καὶ μὴ ψυχῆς τε καὶ σώματος οὕτως εἶναι γεννήματα, πολλὴ μωρία τε καὶ ἀλογία. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 74:2)
  • μωρίᾳ γε τοῦ νέου. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees 1:4)
  • ἕτοιμοι δ εἰσὶ μωρίᾳ φρενῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 3:15)
  • ὡς οὖν παραινῶ μὴ μακράν, σιγήσομαι ἅ μου καθικετεύσατ, οὐδὲ μωρίᾳ ξύμβουλος ἔσομαι τῇ κασιγνήτου ποτέ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 16:3)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ὁ τοξεύειν τῷ ἀρότρῳ βουλόμενος καὶ τῷ βοϊ` τὸν λαγῶ κυνηγετεῖν δυστυχής ἐστιν οὐδὲ τῷ γρίφοις καὶ σαγήναις ἐλάφους μὴ λαμβάνοντι μηδὲ ὗς δαίμων ἐναντιοῦται μοχθηρός, ἀλλ ἀβελτερίᾳ καὶ μωρίᾳ τοῖς ἀδυνάτοις ἐπιχειροῦσιν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 122)

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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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