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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

  • ἔριν δ’ ἀγέραστον ἐάσασ οὐ Χείρων ἀλέγιζε καὶ οὐκ ἐμπάζετο Πηλεύσ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 117)
  • Ποῖ δή, Δαναοί, τὸν ἐμὸν τύμβον στέλλεσθ’ ἀγέραστον ἀφέντεσ; (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests4)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἔπασχον δεινὰ πρὸσ ὑμῶν, ἀγέραστον ἔχων ὄνομ’ ἐν Θήβαισ. (Euripides, episode, anapests9)
  • οὐ μὴν οὐδ’ υἱὸσ Μήνησ ἀγέραστον ἔθηκεν Μουσαῖοσ, Χαρίτων ἤρανοσ, Ἀντιόπην· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 1:4)
  • τὸν μὲν ἐγών, εἰ καί περ ἐσ Αἴδα ναυτίλληται λυσόμενοσ χαλκέων Ἰξίονα νειόθι δεσμῶν, ῥύσομαι, ὅσσον ἐμοῖσιν ἐνὶ σθένοσ ἔπλετο γυίοισ, ὄφρα μὴ ἐγγελάσῃ Πελίησ κακὸν οἶτον ἀλύξασ, ὅσ μ’ ὑπερηνορέῃ θυέων ἀγέραστον ἔθηκεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 2:8)

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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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