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ἀβέβηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβέβηλος ἀβέβηλη ἀβέβηλον

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

Sense

  1. not profane, inviolable

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν ἐβόων τοὺσ ἀνδροφόνουσ ἀναιρεῖν, οἱ δ’, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ Κλωδίου τοῦ δημαγωγοῦ πρότερον, ἀπὸ τῶν ἐργαστηρίων τὰ βάθρα καὶ τάσ τραπέζασ ἀνασπῶντεσ καὶ συγκομίζοντεσ εἰσ ταὐτό παμμεγέθη πυρὰν ἔνησαν καὶ τὸν νεκρὸν ἐπιθέντεσ ἐν μέσῳ πολλῶν μὲν ἱερῶν, πολλῶν δ’ ἀσύλων καὶ ἀβεβήλων τόπων καθήγιζον. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 20 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. not profane

Derived

  • βέβηλος (allowable to be trodden, permitted to human use, unhallowed)

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

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