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μωρός , ά, όν, Att. μῶρος Hdn.Gr.1.192: μῶρος as fem., E.Med.61, but acc.
A.“μῶραν” Herod.5.17 (s. v.l.):—dull, sluggish, of the nerves, Hp.Genit.2; χειμῶνος ἀρχομένου μ. γίνονται οἱ ἐργάται [τῶν σφηκῶν] Arist.HA628a6.
2. of persons, dull, stupid, “μωροῦ φωτὸς ἅδε βουλά” Simon.57.6, cf. S.Ant.220, 470, Isoc.5.94, LXXSi.18.18, al., Ev.Matt.7.26, etc.: Comp. in prov., “μωρότερος Μορύχου” Sophr.74: Sup., X.An.3.2.22.
b. in a religious sense, λαὸς μ. καὶ ἀκάρδιος LXXJe.5.21,al.
3. of things, “δέδοικα μῶρον πυραύστου μόρον” A.Fr.288; “μῶρόν ἐστι τοὐγχείρημά σου” S.OT540; τὸ μ. folly, E.Hipp. 966; “τὸ μ. τοῦ θεοῦ σοφώτερον τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐστί” 1 Ep.Cor.1.25; μῶρα φρονεῖν, φωνεῖν, δρᾶν, S.Aj.594, OT433, Ant.469; “μῶρα . . μῶρος λέγει” E.Ba.369, cf. LXXIs.32.6; “μ. βουλεύεσθαι” Ar.Ec.474.
b. μ. ἀνάγκη blind necessity, Epicur.Nat.101 G.
4. of taste, insipid, flat, Com. Adesp.596, Diocl.Fr.138, Dsc.4.19.
II. Adv. -ρως X.An.7.6.21. (Cf. Skt. mūrás 'idiot'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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