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ἀβασίλευτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβασίλευτος ἀβασίλευτη ἀβασίλευτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + βασιλευτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: basileu/w

Sense

  1. not ruled by a king

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

  • καὶ τά γε πρῶτα πρᾴωσ ἤκουε τούτων, ἐπεὶ δὲ πανστρατιᾷ μὲν αὐτῷ συνῆλθον Ἀρμένιοι καὶ Γορδυηνοί, πανστρατιᾷ δὲ Μήδουσ καὶ Ἀδιαβηνοὺσ ἄγοντεσ οἱ βασιλεῖσ παρῆσαν, ἧκον δὲ πολλοὶ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι θαλάσσησ Ἄραβεσ, πολλοὶ δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ Κασπίασ Ἀλβανοὶ καὶ Ἴβηρεσ Ἀλβανοῖσ προσοικοῦντεσ, οὐκ ὀλίγοι δὲ τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἀράξην νεμομένων ἀβασίλευτοι χάριτι καὶ δώροισ πεισθέντεσ ἀπήντησαν, ἐλπίδων δὲ καὶ θράσουσ καὶ βαρβαρικῶν ἀπειλῶν μεστὰ μὲν ἦν τὰ συμπόσια τοῦ βασιλέωσ, μεστὰ δὲ τὰ συμβούλια, παρεκινδύνευσε μὲν ὁ Ταξίλησ ἀποθανεῖν ὑπεναντιούμενοσ τῇ γνώμῃ τῆσ μάχησ, ἐδόκει δὲ καὶ Μιθριδάτησ φθονῶν ἀποτρέπειν μεγάλου κατορθώματοσ. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 26 4:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ γείτονέσ γ’ εἰσὶν αὐτοῖσ Θρᾷκεσ οἱ ἀβασίλευτοι, οἳ θεραπεύουσι μὲν καὶ νῦν ἤδη τοὺσ Ὀλυνθίουσ· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 20:1)
  • οἱ δὲ ταύτην οἰκοῦντεσ καλοῦνται μὲν ἱκέται τοῦ Διὸσ τοῦ Τριφυλίου, μόνοι δ’ εἰσὶ τῶν τὴν Παγχαίαν χώραν οἰκούντων αὐτόνομοι καὶ ἀβασίλευτοι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 42 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. not ruled by a king

Related

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

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