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ἀειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀειδής ἀειδές

Structure: ἀειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. without form, incorporeal

Examples

  • θάσσει δὲ γυνὴ τρίποδα ζάθεον Δελφίσ, ἀείδουσ’ Ἕλλησι βοάσ, ἃσ ἂν Ἀπόλλων κελαδήσῃ. (Euripides, Ion, choral, anapests4)
  • Ἥμονοσ δέ τινοσ Χίου ἀειδοῦσ ὄντοσ καὶ ὑπολαμβάνοντοσ εἶναι καλοῦ καὶ ἐν χλανίσιν ἀεὶ ἀναστρεφομένου εἰπόντοσ ὅτι οὐ δοκεῖ αὐτῷ <ὁ> σοφὸσ ἐρασθήσεσθαι, ἔφη, πότερον οὐδ’ ἐὰν οὕτω καλὸσ ᾖ τισ ὥσπερ σὺ οὐδ’ ἐὰν οὕτω καλὰ ἱμάτια ἔχῃ; (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. s'. ARKESILAOS 7:5)
  • μυθολογοῦσιν οἱ λογιώτατοι τῶν ἐγχωρίων τὴν Ἀφροδίτην προσκόψασαν τῇ προειρημένῃ θεᾷ δεινὸν ἐμβαλεῖν ἔρωτα νεανίσκου τινὸσ τῶν θυόντων οὐκ ἀειδοῦσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 4 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. without form

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

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