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ἄδεσμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδεσμος ἄδεσμη ἄδεσμον

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

Sense

  1. unfettered, unbound, parole, that is no bond

Examples

  • δεσμὸν δ’ ἄδεσμον τόνδ’ ἔχουσα φυλλάδοσ μένω πρὸσ ἁγναῖσ ἐσχάραισ δυοῖν θεαῖν Κόρησ τε καὶ Δήμητροσ, οἰκτίρουσα μὲν πολιὰσ ἄπαιδασ τάσδε μητέρασ τέκνων, σέβουσα δ’ ἱερὰ στέμματ’. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:8)
  • οὗτοσ μὲν οὖν καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ παρεδόθησαν εἰσ ἄδεσμον φυλακὴν τοῖσ στρατηγοῖσ. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 19 2:3)

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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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