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ἄδραστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδραστος ἄδραστη ἄδραστον

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

Etym.: didra/skw

Sense

  1. not running away, not inclined to do so

Examples

  • σοὶ δὲ προστάσσω μένειν, Ἄδραστε, κἀμοὶ μὴ ἀναμίγνυσθαι τύχασ τὰσ σάσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 5:37)
  • ἥκιστ’, Ἄδραστε, τοῦτο πρόσφορον λέγεισ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, iambic19)
  • Ἄδραστε καὶ γυναῖκεσ Ἀργεῖαι γένοσ, ὁρᾶτε παῖδασ τούσδ’ ἔχοντασ ἐν χεροῖν πατέρων ἀρίστων σώμαθ’ ὧν ἀνειλόμην· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode1)
  • ὦ κακὰ μνηστεύματα Ἄδραστε προσθείσ, διὰ μιᾶσ νύμφησ γάμον ἀπωλόμεσθα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 13:10)

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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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