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1. 혈통, 가족, 종족

1. stock, race, family, lineage

예문

• Hymettos Attica et Isthmos Ephyraea et Taenaros Spartiaca, glebae felices aeternum libris felicioribus conditae, mea vetus prosapia est: (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, book 1 1:5)

  (아풀레이우스, 변신, 1권 1:5)

• "Neque tuae dignitatis vel etiam prosapiae tuorum ignari sumus, Luci domine;" (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, book 3 10:2)

  (아풀레이우스, 변신, 3권 10:2)

• "et ad Venerem collata facie, Nec tu, inquit Filia, quicquam contristere nec prosapiae tantae tuae statuque de matrimonio mortali metuas." (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, book 6 1:174)

  (아풀레이우스, 변신, 6권 1:174)

• "Nanctus denique praesentiae suae tempestillam occasionem, sceleri quod diu cogitarat accingitur, ac die, quo praedonum infestis mucronibus puella fuerat astu virtutibusque sponsi sui liberata, turbae gratulantium exultans insigniter permiscuit sese salutique praesenti ac futurae suboli novorum maritorum gaudibundus, ad honorem splendidae prosapiae inter praecipuos hospites domum nostram receptus, occultato consilio sceleris, amici fidelissimi personam mentiebatur." (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, book 8 1:9)

  (아풀레이우스, 변신, 8권 1:9)

• at enim casulae parvulae conterminos magnos et beatos agros possidebat vicinus potens et dives et iuvenis, sed prosapiae maiorum gloria male utens pollensque factionibus et cuncta facile faciens in civitate: (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, book 9 32:4)

  (아풀레이우스, 변신, 9권 32:4)

유의어 사전

1. Stirps, genus, and gens, denote the race usually in an ascending line, as abstract and collective terms, for majores; whereas prosapia, progenies, propago, proles, suboles, in a descending line, as abstract and collective terms for posteri. 2. Prosapia is an antiquated solemn expression, and only to be used of ancient noble families, Cic. Univ. 11. Quintil. i. 6, 40; posteritas, the usual prosaic, progenies, a select, elevated expression, Cic. Rep. ii. 22; proles and suboles, poetical expressions, Cic. Or. iii. 38; proles denotes children, as fruits destined, as a younger race, to exist with their parents; suboles, as an after-growth, destined to supply the place of the generation that is dying off. 3. Gens (γενετή) is a political, genus (γένος), a natural race. Gens consists of families, whom the founder of states has united into a community or complex family; genus consists of species and individuals, that by their common properties belong to one and the same class of beings. (v. 307).

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein