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ἄβιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄβιος ἄβιη ἄβιον

Structure: ἀβι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without a living, starving
  2. simple in life

Examples

  • ὁρᾷσ τὸν Ηρακλέα καὶ τὸν Μελέαγρον καὶ ἄλλουσ θαυμαστοὺσ ἄνδρασ, οἳ οὐκ ἂν οἶμαι δέξαιντο ἀνελθεῖν, εἴ τισ αὐτοὺσ ἀναπέμψειε θητεύσοντασ ἀκλήροισ καὶ ἀβίοισ ἀνδράσιν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. without a living

  2. simple in life

Related

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

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