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ἀξιαφήγητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀξιαφήγητος ἀξιαφήγητη ἀξιαφήγητον

Structure: ἀξιαφηγητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)fhge/omai

Sense

  1. worth telling

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

  • Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ Λάγου καὶ Ἀριστόβουλοσ ὁ Ἀριστοβούλου ὅσα μὲν ταὐτὰ ἄμφω περὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Φιλίππου συνέγραψαν, ταῦτα ἐγὼ ὡσ πάντῃ ἀληθῆ ἀναγράφω, ὅσα δὲ οὐ ταὐτά, τούτων τὰ πιστότερα ἐμοὶ φαινόμενα καὶ ἅμα ἀξιαφηγητότερα ἐπιλεξάμενοσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter pr 1:1)
  • ὧν τὰ λαμπρὰ καὶ τὰ χείρω γενόμενα ἐν μνήμῃ τε μᾶλλον ὄντα, ὅτι καὶ τελευταῖα γέγονεν, ἐπελεύσομαι νῦν, οὐ πάντα οὑ̓ γὰρ ἀξιαφήγητον ἀναίρεσισ ἁπλῆ καὶ φυγὴ ἢ τῶν τριῶν ἀνδρῶν τισι συγγνόντων ὕστερον ἐπάνοδοσ ἢ ἐπανελθόντων ἀφανὴσ καταβίωσισ̓, ἀλλ’ ὅσα παραλογώτατα ὄντα μάλιστα ἂν ἐκπλήξειε καὶ πιστεύειν ποιήσειε τοῖσ προλεγομένοισ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 3 5:4)
  • ἔργον δ’ ἦν ἀξιαφηγητότατον τῶν ὑφ’ ἡλίῳ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 488:1)

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

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