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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

  • τὰ δὲ πράγματα αὐτὰ οὐχ ὡσ ἔτυχε συνακτέον, ἀλλὰ φιλοπόνωσ καὶ ταλαιπώρωσ πολλάκισ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἀνακρίναντα, καὶ μάλιστα μὲν παρόντα καὶ ἐφορῶντα, εἰ δὲ μή, τοῖσ ἀδεκαστότερον ἐξηγουμένοισ προσέχοντα καὶ οὓσ εἰκάσειεν ἄν τισ ἥκιστα πρὸσ χάριν ἢ ἀπέχθειαν ἀφαιρήσειν ἢ προσθήσειν τοῖσ γεγονόσι. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 471)

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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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