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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

  • οἵδε οἱ περιφυγόντεσ ἡμᾶσ ἐξ Ἰταλίασ, οἳ τοὺσ δέκα ἔτεσιν ἀθλοῦντασ ἡμᾶσ καὶ πολέμουσ τοσούσδε καὶ νίκασ δυσαριθμήτουσ ἀνύσαντασ καὶ Ἰβήρων καὶ Κελτῶν καὶ Βρεττανῶν ἔθνη τετρακόσια περιποιήσαντασ τῇ πατρίδι διέλυον ἀγεράστουσ ἄνευ θριάμβου τε καὶ δωρεᾶσ, καὶ οὐδ’ ἐσ τὰ δίκαια αὐτοὺσ ἐγὼ προκαλούμενοσ ἔπειθον οὐδὲ χάρισιν ἐξήνυον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 11 2:7)

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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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