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Ἀσφάλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀσφάλειος Ἀσφάλειη Ἀσφάλειον

Structure: Ἀσφαλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)sfalh/s

Sense

  1. securer

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐμὴ βουλὴ καὶ ἀσφάλεια, ἐμὴ φρόνησισ, ἐμὴ δὲ ἰσχύσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 8:14)
  • διότι οὕτωσ εἶπέ μοι Κύριοσ. ἀσφάλεια ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἐμῇ πόλει ὡσ φῶσ καύματοσ μεσημβρίασ, καὶ ὡσ νεφέλη δρόσου ἡμέρασ ἀμήτου ἔσται. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 18:4)
  • ἄλλωσ τε οὐδὲ ὄνειδοσ αὐτῷ ἐστιν, ὡσ σὺ φήσ, τὸ παρασιτεῖν ἐκείνῳ, δῆλον ὅτι ὥσ τινι κρείττονι χείρονα, ὅπου γε μὴν τῷ πλουσίῳ τοῦτο λυσιτελέσ ἐστιν, τὸ τρέφειν τὸν παράσιτον, ᾧ γε μετὰ τοῦ κοσμεῖσθαι ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀσφάλεια πολλὴ ἐκ τῆσ τούτου δορυφορίασ ὑπάρχει· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 58:6)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ὁ μὲν μηδενὸσ τῶν ἀπὸ μαντικῆσ καταφρονῶν, ὁ δὲ πάντα ὑπερορῶν ὁμοίωσ ἀπώλοντο, χαλεπὴ μὲν ἐν τούτοισ ἡ ἀσφάλεια καὶ δύσκριτοσ, ἐπιεικέστερον δὲ τοῦ παρανόμου καὶ αὐθάδουσ τὸ μετὰ δόξησ παλαιᾶσ καὶ συνήθουσ δι’ εὐλάβειαν ἁμαρτανόμενον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Nicias and Crassus, chapter 5 2:1)
  • ἀσφάλεια δὲ τὸ ἐπιβουλεύσασθαι, ἀποτροπῆσ πρόφασισ εὔλογοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 303)
  • ἄνδρα τὸν ἐν αἰτίᾳ φόνου ὁ ἐγγυώμενοσ, φυγὰσ ἔσται καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 28:17)
  • διὰ τοῦτο ἀδυνατήσουσιν ἐν αὐτοῖσ πολλοὶ καὶ πεσοῦνται καὶ συντριβήσονται, καὶ ἐγγιοῦσι καὶ ἁλώσονται ἄνθρωποι ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 8:15)
  • ὃν αὔξει μὲν πόλεμοσ, εἰρήνη δ’ οὐ τρέφει ‐ ἀλλ’ ὁ τὴν χώραν γεωργῶν καὶ ὁ τὴν θάλατταν πλέων καὶ πᾶσ ὁ τὸν ἡσύχιον βίον ἠγαπηκώσ, ᾧ τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἐτείχισα, τοὺσ ὁρ́ουσ τῆσ χώρασ περιβαλὼν οὐ λίθοισ ἀλλὰ τῇ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀσφαλείᾳ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. securer

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

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