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ἀδέκαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδέκαστος ἀδέκαστη ἀδέκαστον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + δεκαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: deka/zw

Sense

  1. unbribed

Examples

  • ἆρ’ οὖν καὶ οἱ φιλόσοφοι τῶν προβλημάτων ἔνια διὰ τὰσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ διαφορὰσ ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἀλόγων φύσιν ζῴων ὥσπερ ἀλλοδαπὴν πόλιν ἐκκαλοῦνται, καὶ τοῖσ ἐκείνων πάθεσι καὶ ἤθεσιν ὡσ ἀνεντεύκτοισ καὶ ἀδεκάστοισ ἐφιᾶσι τὴν κρίσιν; (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 1:1)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν καὶ οἱ φιλόσοφοι τῶν προβλημάτων ἔνια διὰ τὰσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ διαφορὰσ ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἀλόγων φύσιν ζῴων ὥσπερ ἀλλοδαπὴν πόλιν ἐκκαλοῦνται, καὶ τοῖσ ἐκείνων πάθεσι καὶ ἤθεσιν ὡσ ἀνεντεύκτοισ καὶ ἀδεκάστοισ ἐφιᾶσι τὴν κρίσιν; (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 1 2:1)

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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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