Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄδουλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδουλος ἄδουλη ἄδουλον

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

Sense

  1. unattended by slaves

Examples

  • "ἄδουλοσ οὖν γένωμαι καὶ ἀνέστιοσ καὶ ἀοίκοσ; (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 8 1:1)
  • καὶ σὺ γενοῦ ἄδουλοσ, ἵνα μὴ δοῦλοσ ᾖσ· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 8 2:3)
  • ταῦτ’ εἰπὼν ἄλλ’ οὐθὲν οὔτε διοικησάμενοσ οὔτ’ ἐπιστείλασ οὔθ’ ὅποι πορεύεται φράσασ ἀπῆλθεν ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ μόνοσ, ὦ γυναῖκεσ, ἄδουλοσ, ἄποροσ, οὐδὲ τὴν ἐφήμερον ὁ δύστηνοσ ἐκ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ χρημάτων τροφὴν ἐπαγόμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 41 9:1)
  • "ἴδετέ με, ἀοίκόσ εἰμι, ἄπολισ, ἀκτήμων, ἄδουλοσ· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 47:1)

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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