Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀβίαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβίαστος ἀβίαστη ἀβίαστον

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

Etym.: bia/zw

Sense

  1. unforced, without violence

Examples

  • βίᾳ δὲ ἀέρα συστάντα οὐδὲν λύει πλὴν κατὰ τὸ στοιχεῖον, ἀβίαστον δὲ κατατήκει μόνον πῦρ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 281:3)

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

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