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ἁβροδίαιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁβροδίαιτος

Structure: ἁβροδιαιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: di/aita

Sense

  1. living delicately, effeminacy

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ φύλακεσ οἵδε Καμπανοῖσ ἁβροδιαίτοισ καὶ πολυτελέσιν οὖσι κοινωνοῦντεσ ἐφθείροντο τὰσ γνώμασ, καὶ ἐφθόνουν ὧν ἔχουσιν ἀγαθῶν, αὐτοὶ πενόμενοι καὶ τὰ χρέα δεδιότεσ τὰ ἐν Ῥώμῃ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. living delicately

Related

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

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