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ῥᾴθυμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥᾴθυμος ῥᾴθυμον

Structure: ῥᾳθυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. taking things easy, indifferent, lazy, sluggish
  2. easy
  3. lightly, with equanimity

Examples

  • Τί ἔτι ἀργοὶ καὶ ῥᾴθυμοι καὶ νωθροί ἐσμεν καὶ προφάσεισ ζητοῦμεν, καθ’ ἃσ οὐ πονήσομεν οὐδ’ ἀγρυπνήσομεν ἐξεργαζόμενοι τὸν αὑτῶν λόγον; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 29:1)
  • διὰ δὲ τὴν ἀφθονίαν τῶν καρπῶν ἀργοὶ καὶ ῥᾴθυμοι τοῖσ βίοισ εἰσὶν οἱ ἄνθρωποι· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 37:4)

Synonyms

  1. easy

Related

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

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