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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

  • οἱ δ’ οἰκημάτων μὲν ἀθύρων καὶ βαλλαντίων ἀδέσμων μηδὲν ὄφελοσ οἰόμενοι τοῖσ κεκτημένοισ εἶναι, στόμασι δ’ ἀκλείστοισ καὶ ἀθύροισ ὥσπερ τὸ τοῦ Πόντου διὰ παντὸσ ἔξω ῥέουσι χρώμενοι, πάντων ἀτιμότατον ἡγεῖσθαι τὸν λόγον ἐοίκασιν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 33)

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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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