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ἀφειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφειδής ἀφειδές

Structure: ἀφειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fei/domai

Sense

  1. unsparing or lavish of
  2. done without regard to cost or risk
  3. freely, lavishly, sparing no pains, with all zeal
  4. unsparingly, without mercy

Examples

  • ἦν δὲ καὶ περὶ τἆλλα χρηματιστὴσ ἀργότεροσ, εὐδάπανοσ δὲ καὶ ἀφειδὴσ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων, οὐ πολλὰ δ’ ἦν, ἀλλὰ καὶ φερνῆσ ὀφειλομένησ τῇ γυναικὶ μετὰ τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ γλίσχρωσ ἐξήρκεσεν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 4 3:1)
  • οὐκ ἔστι δὲ μικροκίνδυνοσ οὐδὲ φιλοκίνδυνοσ διὰ τὸ ὀλίγα τιμᾶν, μεγαλοκίνδυνοσ δέ, καὶ ὅταν κινδυνεύῃ, ἀφειδὴσ τοῦ βίου ὡσ οὐκ ἄξιον ὂν πάντωσ ζῆν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 83:2)
  • ὁ δὲ Καῖσαρ ἦν ἔτι νέοσ, δεινὸσ εἰπεῖν τε καὶ πρᾶξαι, τολμῆσαί τε ἐσ πάντα καὶ ἐλπίσαι περὶ ἁπάντων, ἐσ δὲ δὴ φιλοτιμίαν ἀφειδὴσ ὑπὲρ δύναμιν, ὡσ ἀγορανομῶν ἔτι καὶ στρατηγῶν εἶναι κατάχρεωσ καὶ τῷ πλήθει δαιμονίωσ ὑπεραρέσκειν, τῶν δήμων αἰεὶ τοὺσ δαψιλεῖσ ἐπαινούντων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 1 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. unsparingly

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

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