Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄδειπνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδειπνος ἄδειπνη ἄδειπνον

Structure: ἀδειπν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dei=pnon

Sense

  1. supperless

Examples

  • οὗ φασι τὸν θύοντα τοῖσ κεκλημένοισ δείξαντ’ ἰδεῖν τὸ δεῖπνον εἰσ τὴν αὔριον πωλεῖν ἀδείπνοισ ἃ παρέθηκ’ αὐτοῖσ ἰδεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 11 3:3)
  • ἀνοίγετ’ ἤδη τὰσ θύρασ, ἵνα πρὸσ τὸ φῶσ ὦμεν καταφανεῖσ μᾶλλον, ἐφοδεύων ἐὰν βούληθ’ ὁ γυναικονόμοσ ἀπολαβεῖν τὸν ἀριθμόν,, κατὰ τὸν νόμον τὸν καινὸν ὅπερ εἰώθε δρᾶν, τῶν ἑστιωμένων, ἔδει δὲ τοὔμπαλιν τὰσ τῶν ἀδείπνων ἐξετάζειν οἰκίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 461)
  • τῶν μισθοδώρων οὐκ ἀδείπνων ἐν τρυφῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 49 5:1)
  • Γυναῖκα ἢν θέλῃσ εἰδέναι εἰ κύει, ἐπὴν καθεύδειν μέλλῃ, ἀδείπνῳ ἐούσῃ, μελίκρητον διδόναι πιεῖν‧ κἢν μὲν στρόφοσ αὐτὴν ἔχῃ περὶ τὴν γαστέρα, κύει‧ ἢν δὲ μὴ, οὐ κύει. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 72.41)
  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ μεστῶν γρυπὴ ἡ γαστὴρ γίγνεται, τῶν δὲ ἀδείπνων σιμή. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 24:7)
  • καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ εἰσ τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ἄδειπνοσ, καὶ ἐδέσματα οὐκ εἰσήνεγκαν αὐτῷ καὶ ὁ ὕπνοσ ἀπέστη ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἔκλεισεν ὁ Θεὸσ τὰ στόματα τῶν λεόντων, καὶ οὐ παρηνώχλησαν τῷ Δανιήλ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 6:18)
  • ἅπερ εἰ μὴ ἐνεγέγραπτο ἐπιμελῶσ τῇ ἱστορίᾳ, μεγάλα ἂν ἡμεῖσ ἠγνοηκότεσ ἦμεν, καὶ ἡ ζημία Ῥωμαίοισ ἀφόρητοσ, εἰ Μαυσάκασ ὁ Μαῦροσ διψῶν μὴ εὑρ͂ε πιεῖν, ἀλλ̓ ἄδειπνοσ ἐπανῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 28 1:3)
  • τὰ πόλλ’ ἄδειπνοσ περιπατεῖ, κεστρῖνόσ ἐστι νῆστισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 41 3:2)
  • Χαιρεφῶν οὕτωσ μεμάθηκε κωμάζειν ἄδειπνοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 42 3:8)
  • ἐντὸσ πυλῶν γὰρ ἂν μένων ἄδειπνοσ ἦν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 77 5:2)

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

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