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ἀγένειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγένειος ἀγένειη ἀγένειον

Structure: ἀγενει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/neion

Sense

  1. beardless, like a boy

Examples

  • οὖν ὁ ἐπὶ κάλλει μέγα φρονῶν, ἔτι ἀγένειοσ αὐτὸσ ὢν σὸσ πατὴρ κεκλήσομαι καὶ γέλωτα ὀφλήσω παρὰ πᾶσιν ἐπὶ τῇ εὐπαιδίᾳ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 5:1)
  • ἀλλὰ καλὸσ καὶ ἀγένειοσ, καὶ φησὶν ἐραν καὶ δακρύει καὶ Δεινομάχησ καὶ Λάχητοσ υἱόσ ἐστι τοῦ Ἀρεοπαγίτου καὶ φησὶν ἡμᾶσ γαμήσειν καὶ μεγάλασ ἐλπίδασ ἔχομεν παῤ αὐτοῦ, ἢν ὁ γέρων μόνον καταμύσῃ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:1)
  • καὶ πρῴην μὲν ὅτε ὁ γεωργὸσ ὁ Ἀχαρνεὺσ ἧκε δύο μνᾶσ κομίζων, ἀγένειοσ καὶ αὐτόσ ‐ οἴνου δὲ τιμὴν ἀπειλήφει τοῦ πατρὸσ πέμψαντοσ ‐ σὺ δὲ ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἀπεμύκτισασ, καθεύδεισ δὲ μετὰ τοῦ Ἀδώνιδοσ Χαιρέου. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:5)
  • ὥστε μὴ μειρακιεῦου πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ, ἀλλὰ λέγε θαρρῶν ἤδη τὰ δοκοῦντα, μηδὲν αἰδεσθεὶσ εἰ ἀγένειοσ ὢν δημηγορήσεισ, καὶ ταῦτα βαθυπώγωνα καὶ εὐγένειον οὕτωσ υἱὸν ἔχων τὸν Ἀσκληπιόν. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 26:4)
  • οὐδ’ ἀγοράσει γ’ ἀγένειοσ οὐδεὶσ ἐν ἀγορᾷ. (Aristotle, Episode 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. beardless

Related

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

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