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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἐθέλει ἡ τυραννὶσ ὑπὸ ῥᾳθύμου τε καὶ τρόπον τινὰ ἀεὶ κοιμωμένησ διανοίασ θηρεύεσθαι, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον ὑπὸ δριμείασ τε καὶ ἀγρύπνου φροντίδοσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 32:1)

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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