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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

  • ἃ δὴ πυνθανόμενοσ ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδησ καὶ δεδοικὼσ ἀπῆλθεν ἐκ τοῦ στρατοπέδου παντάπασι, καὶ συναγαγὼν ξένουσ ἐπολέμει τοῖσ ἀβασιλεύτοισ Θρᾳξὶν ἰδίᾳ, καὶ πολλὰ χρήματα συνήγαγεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἁλισκομένων, καὶ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἅμα τοῖσ προσοικοῦσιν ἄδειαν ἀπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων παρεῖχεν. (Plutarch, , chapter 36 3:2)
  • συμφρονήσαντεσ δὲ οἱ γενναιότατοι Πάρθων, ὡσ ἀβασιλεύτοισ μὲν ἀμήχανον πολιτεύεσθαι, οἱ δὲ τοῦ βασιλεύοντοσ ἐκ τοῦ γένουσ τῶν Ἀρσακιδῶν, οὐ γὰρ ἑτέροισ ἄρχειν νόμιμον, ἀπέχρη δὲ πολλάκισ καὶ μέχρι νῦν περιυβρίσθαι τὴν βασιλείαν ἔκ τε γάμων τῆσ Ἰταλικῆσ παλλακίδοσ καὶ γενέσεων, Ὀρώδην ἐκάλουν πρεσβεύσαντεσ εἰσ δάν, ἄλλωσ μὲν ἐπίφθονον τῷ πλήθει καὶ ὑπαίτιον καθ’ ὑπερβολὰσ ὠμότητοσ, πάνυ γὰρ ἦν σκαιὸσ καὶ δυσδιάθετοσ εἰσ ὀργήν, ἕνα δὲ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ γένουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 56:1)

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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