Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀκέλευστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκέλευστος ἀκέλευστη ἀκέλευστον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + κελευστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unbidden

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • χάριν γὰρ τροφεῦσιν ἀμείβων μηλοφόνοισιν <ἐν> ἄταισ δαῖτ’ ἀκέλευστοσ ἔτευξεν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 2 1:2)
  • τίπτε μοι τόδ’ ἐμπέδωσ δεῖμα προστατήριον καρδίασ τερασκόπου ποτᾶται, μαντιπολεῖ δ’ ἀκέλευστοσ ἄμισθοσ ἀοιδά, οὐδ’ ἀποπτύσαι δίκαν δυσκρίτων ὀνειράτων θάρσοσ εὐπειθὲσ ἵ‐ ζει φρενὸσ φίλον θρόνον; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 11)
  • καὶ δὲ σέ, Καῖσαρ, νῦν ἀκέλευστοσ ἅπασ ὄρνισ ἀνακρέκεται. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 562 1:3)
  • ἴτω μὲν νῦν πᾶσ ἀκέλευστοσ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ ἐπὶ τὰσ τῶν πλουσίων καὶ σοφῶν θύρασ, τοιοῦτοσ ἕτεροσ αὐτὸσ ὤν· (Plato, Laws, book 12 83:1)

Synonyms

  1. unbidden

Derived

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

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