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σχέτλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σχέτλιος

Structure: σχετλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unwearying
  2. unflinching, cruel, merciless, wicked, savage
  3. miserable, wretched, unhappy, O most wretched fool!, O wretched
  4. cruel, cruel, shocking

Examples

  • διὸ καὶ τὴν Σαλαμῖνα θείαν, οὐχὶ δεινὴν οὐδὲ σχετλίαν καλεῖν τὸν θεόν, ὡσ εὐτυχήματοσ μεγάλου τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἐπώνυμον ἐσομένην. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 2:2)
  • ἐπεὶ κακοῦ γέ του μέλλοντοσ καταλήψεσθαι τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἐν αὐτῇ, σχετλίαν καὶ οὐ θείαν τὸ πρόσρημα ἂν αὐτῆσ εἶναι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 72:1)

Synonyms

  1. unwearying

  2. miserable

  3. cruel

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

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