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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 γὰρ μαχιμώτατοί εἰσιν ἐσ τοῦτο ἔτι καὶ τοῖσ Τραπεζουντίοισ ἐχθρότατοι, καὶ χωρία ὀχυρὰ οἰκοῦσιν, ἔθνοσ ἀβασίλευτον καὶ πάλαι μὲν καὶ φόρου ὑποτελὲσ Ῥωμαίοισ, ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ λῃστεύειν οὐκ ἀκριβοῦσιν τὴν ἀποφοράν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 11 2:1)
  • ἐπιὼν οὖν ἀνέπειθε κατὰ δήμουσ καὶ γένη, τῶν μὲν ἰδιωτῶν καὶ πενήτων ἐνδεχομένων ταχὺ τὴν παράκλησιν αὐτοῦ, τοῖσ δὲ δυνατοῖσ ἀβασίλευτον πολιτείαν προτείνων καὶ δημοκρατίαν αὐτῷ μόνον ἄρχοντι πολέμου καὶ νόμων φύλακι χρησομένην, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων παρέξουσαν ἅπασιν ἰσομοιρίαν. (Plutarch, chapter 24 2:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῦ πάππου Νομήτοροσ ἐν Ἄλβῃ τελευτήσαντοσ, αὐτῷ βασιλεύειν προσῆκον, εἰσ μέσον ἔθηκε τὴν πολιτείαν δημαγωγῶν, καὶ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἀπεδείκνυεν ἄρχοντα τοῖσ Ἀλβανοῖσ, ἐδίδαξε δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἐν Ῥώμῃ δυνατοὺσ ἀβασίλευτον ζητεῖν καὶ αὐτόνομον πολιτείαν, ἀρχομένουσ ἐν μέρει καὶ ἄρχοντασ. (Plutarch, chapter 27 1:1)
  • ἦσαν δὲ εἰσ σπείρασ τέσσαρασ, οἷσ τὸ ἀβασίλευτον τιμιώτερον τῆσ τυραννίδοσ προύκειτο. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 213:2)
  • ἀβασίλευτόν ἐστιν ἡ ἀκρὶσ καὶ στρατεύει ἀφ̓ ἑνὸσ κελεύσματοσ εὐτάκτωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:63)

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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