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

  • 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)
  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ μεστῶν γρυπὴ ἡ γαστὴρ γίγνεται, τῶν δὲ ἀδείπνων σιμή. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 24:7)

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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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