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ἀδωροδόκητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδωροδόκητος ἀδωροδόκητη ἀδωροδόκητον

Structure: ἀδωροδοκητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: =a)dwrodo/kos

Sense

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ εἴ με γινώσκεισ ἀληθῶσ, ἐπαίνει τὸ ἀδωροδόκητον ἢ τὸ σῶφρον ἢ τὸ εὔγνωμον ἢ τὸ φιλάνθρωπον. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 12 10:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ἐπανελθὼν ἀνεῦρε καὶ διεδόθη λόγοσ ὑπὲρ τούτου, πολλοὶ τῶν εὐφυῶν ὑπόθεσιν λαβόντεσ εἰσ τὸ ἀδωροδόκητον τοῦ Δημοσθένουσ διημιλλῶντο τοῖσ ἐπιγράμμασι. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 31 2:1)
  • τοῦτον οὖν δίκαιον ἠξίουν παρέχεσθαι καὶ ἀδωροδόκητον τὸν προσιόντα τοῖσ κοινοῖσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 357:4)
  • κατιδόντεσ δ’ αὐτὸν οἱ τῇ τῆσ πόλεωσ προσπολεμοῦντεσ ἡσυχίᾳ, ἄσμενοι παρεκάλουν ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα, τὸν μόνον ἀδωροδόκητον ὀνομάζοντεσ τῇ πόλει· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 82 1:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ σοφὸν καὶ θεῖον ἀδωροδόκητον εἶναι καὶ προῖκα τοὺσ δεομένουσ ὠφελεῖν, μηνύσειν δ’ αὐτῷ τὰ γεγραμμένα σημαίνοντα καταστροφὴν αὐτῷ τοῦ βίου, ὅτι μηδ’ οἷσ ὁ πρόγονοσ αὐτοῦ διὰ τὰσ εἰσ θεὸν ὕβρεισ ἐκολάσθη τούτοισ ἔμαθεν εὐσεβεῖν καὶ μηδὲν ὑπὲρ τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην φύσιν μηχανᾶσθαι· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 10 300:2)

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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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