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ὀλιγωρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγωρία

Structure: ὀλιγωρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o)ligwre/w

Sense

  1. an esteeming lightly, slighting, contempt
  2. negligence

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

  • πραότητοσ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ δύνασθαι φέρειν μετρίωσ ἐγκλήματα καὶ ὀλιγωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ ταχέωσ ὁρμᾶν ἐπὶ τὰσ τιμωρίασ, καὶ τὸ μὴ εὐκίνητον εἶναι πρὸσ τὰσ ὀργάσ, ἄπικρον δὲ τῷ ἤθει καὶ ἀφιλόνεικον, ἔχοντα τὸ ἠρεμαῖον ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ στάσιμον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 15:3)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀηδίασ, τὸ δ’ ὀλιγωρίασ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 14 2:1)
  • ὑμεῖσ μήτε Δία γενέθλιον μήτε Δήμητρα θεσμοφόρον εἶναι μήτε Ποσειδῶνα φυτάλμιον ὁμολογεῖν ἐθέλοντεσ, οὗτοσ ὁ χωρισμὸσ τῶν ὀνομάτων πονηρὸσ ἐστι καὶ τὸν βίον ἐμπίπλησιν ὀλιγωρίασ ἀθέου καὶ θρασύτητοσ, ὅταν τὰσ συνεζευγμένασ τοῖσ θεοῖσ προσηγορίασ ἀποσπῶντεσ συναναιρῆτε θυσίασ μυστήρια πομπὰσ ἑορτάσ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 22 4:1)
  • Ἀριστείδησ δὲ πεμφθεὶσ εἰσ Λακεδαίμονα τῆσ μὲν βραδυτῆτοσ αὐτοῖσ ἐνεκάλει καὶ τῆσ ὀλιγωρίασ, προεμένοισ αὖθισ τῷ βαρβάρῳ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ, ἠξίου δὲ πρὸσ τὰ ἔτι σωζόμενα τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ βοηθεῖν. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 6:3)
  • φανεὶσ ὁ ἀδικήσασ ἔλυσε τὴν τῆσ ὀλιγωρίασ δόξαν. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 12 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. negligence

Related

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

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