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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

  • θεασάμενοι δ’ αὐτόν τινεσ τῶν ἀδεκάστων καὶ τῶν ἐστρατευμένων τῷ Καίσαρι, δι’ ὀργῆσ ἔχοντεσ ὅτι πρῶτοσ ἐπὶ τῷ Καίσαρι, καίπερ οἰκεῖοσ ὢν αὐτοῦ, βλασφήμωσ ἐδημηγόρησε, λίθοισ ἔβαλλον καὶ ἐδίωκον· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 18 1:5)

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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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