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ἀγέραστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγέραστος

Structure: ἀγεραστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/ras

Sense

  1. without a gift of honour, unrecompensed, unrewarded

Examples

  • ταῦτ’ ἔστιν ἐφ’ οἷσ ὑμᾶσ συνεκάλεσα, οὐ μικρά, ὦ θεοί, εἰ λογιεῖσθε ὡσ ἡ ἡ πᾶσα μὲν ἡμῖν τιμὴ καὶ δόξα καὶ πρόσοδοσ οἱ ἄνθρωποὶ εἰσιν εἰ δ’ οὗτοι πεισθεῖεν ἢ μηδὲ ὅλωσ θεοὺσ εἶναι ἢ ὄντασ ἀπρονοήτουσ εἶναι σφῶν αὐτῶν, ἄθυτα καὶ ἀγέραστα καὶ ἀτίμητα ἡμῖν ἔσται τὰ ἐκ γῆσ καὶ μάτην ἐν οὐρανῷ καθεδούμεθα λιμῷ ἐχόμενοι, ἑορτῶν ἐκείνων καὶ πανηγύρεων καὶ ἀγώνων καὶ θυσιῶν καὶ παννυχίδων καὶ πομπῶν στερούμενοι. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 18:1)

Related

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

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